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Meowmee

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16. I will 😀

Reply to Iris (Reply #12)

Sat Feb 15, 2025, 08:32 PM

Feb 2025

I’m going to ask about smallpox too. I also had that vaccine when I was probably about 8-9, for some reason although I had a fever for two weeks and a big sore I did not get the scar that a lot of people got.

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