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“Everyone caught it when I was a girl. Oh, it’s nothing serious. Toughens you up, I’d say. Of course,” she paused, and went on more softly, “you’ll have to go into quarantine.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer