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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 9036, member: 57"]Did you notice how gaunt and wan my uncle looks in comparison to his healthy siblings?  Paul Harvey "the rest of the story" time -- the photo was taken late in the year of 1918 -- the same year the "Spanish influenza" epidemic began in the United States.  My uncle, the boy in the suit, contracted the "flu" and (literally) almost died.  He had a lengthy recuperation.  My grandmother told me that as soon as she could she took all four of her children to the photographer to record her four children and my uncle's recovery. Bakersgma, your noting of his being all in black gave me pause.  My grandmother made all of the clothes for her children.  She never said so, but you have made me wonder if perhaps early on in the critical stages of the flu she had sewn the clothes my uncle has on as his "burial clothing."[/QUOTE]