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Submitted to Contest #48
Gerald was a sickly young man only being able to stand up for a few minutes without his lungs making his chest hurt. He had a special interest in history and loved searching the internet about special historical events. His favorite was on the Bubonic Plague also known as the black death. His strange fascination with the horrific event is more toward the efforts to stop it. It was inspiring to him the effort that people back then did to try and keep from getting sick be that by praying, eating certain herbs said to have magical powers, or tu...
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