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#fridayreads I’m reading Nemesis by Philip Roth, a novel that takes place during a polio epidemic in 1944, with a world war raging at the same time. Poignant and wonderful. I remember summers in the 1950s, when I was a little girl, before the polio vaccine was widespread and available everywhere. Every time a kid got a headache our mothers would panic. I can still feel the fear. Bravo science, Salk and Sabin for saving so many millions of lives.