Gloves and hankies: Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic
Grandma and Grandpa
If it hadn’t been for the flu pandemic of 1918, I wouldn’t be here.
You see both of my grandparents lost their first spouses to the flu or complications from the flu. Grandma had two sons, and Grandpa had one. After they married in the early 1920s, they had two daughters, my aunt and my Mom. They built an early yours-mine-and-ours fam…
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