marion mccarthy suffered badly. one news of the flu began, mary was about nine years old and she decided we should go back to home i think it was minneapolis . they're going to go back to the midwest . from seattle. and so herfather , he was always broke. on the train he was became sick. under conductor wanted to throw them off the train at a station in the middle of the disciplinary. but to mary's astonishment or farmer pulled a government conductor and he said i'd like to see you try. but they died and mary's grandparents went to the station and thetrain arrived . she was brought up by a cold, distant relative. i'm sure they were just trying to do their best but she said it changed thecourse of her life . she had married and went to a book club and that would have been it but she became an intellectual list and author so i think it did change the course of her life. briefly, john steinbeck caught spanish flu and it was only after he recovered but it was a bit strange afterwards. one of the common traits, one of th