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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

James Rainwater, American Scientist

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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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