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lostnfound

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2. I cried when my kid got his polio shot

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 06:57 AM

Sep 2025

because my dear, loving, always-kind mother had suffered with polio as a child and had a slight limp for her whole life. She told stories of learning to walk again, taking separate swim classes in cold detroit winters.

When my infant son was able to be inoculated against that. Horrible disease, I found myself bawling with gratitude to the previous generations and their gift to humanity.

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