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Surviving History: The Fever (2014)
A journal of narrative and experimental history.
I had known of the plight after making a donation earlier this month to a relief fund for these poor souls, but actually seeing entire shipfuls of gaunt and sickly-looking passengers arriving at our ports is an unexpected sight.\n\nMy time for gawking is cut short as now the boy turns us away from the docks and heads toward Elfreth's Alley. Even if he ran the horses at full gallop, it would be too slow for my liking, but at this rate it seems we will never make it to the hospital.\n\nI feel so helpless watching the light in my lovely Sarah's eyes grow dim...\n\n<html><div class = "image"><img src="../img/ellipsis.png" /></div></html>\nWe at last arrive at the fever hospital. I have encountered corpses before in my time as a medical professional, but this stench is near intolerable, like the scent of a thousand dead animals fermented in a vat of brackish water in the blazing summer sun.\n\nI am not certain what I was hoping to find by examining the body, but the unfortunate reality is that the little creature is too far gone to be of any use to me.
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