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Submitted to Contest #130
Its ironic to mention that my Great Grandmother Faye, the subject in this story, had lived in her modest house since the 1910. A polio epidemic had hit the small town of Wytheville Virginia where she lived in 1916. I wonder if they all had to wear masks? I can remember not really understanding that she was my mother's father's mother. She was my Mothers Grandmother and as a child I was keenly aware that she lived alone, she had never been married to my knowledge. She had managed to maintain the house with the help of her son and later my U...
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