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Walleye

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1. Mine too. Eastern Shore of Va.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:49 PM

Feb 2020

My mom was just a baby. My grandmother was so sure she was going to die that she gave her baby to a cousin. Fortunately she recovered and my mom grew up with a mother and father.

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My grandmother almost died from the Spanish flu. That's why Coronavirus makes me nervous, [View all] RandySF Feb 2020 OP

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