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When polio crippled the body, not the spirit
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Hindsights, on April 29, 2020
When polio crippled the body, not the spirit

In the early days of the Cold War, the only thing parents feared more than nuclear apocalypse was a polio epidemic. Like an A-bomb the polio virus struck swiftly and without warning. It was the most dreaded disease of the 20th century. Although polio is mostly a memory in the Hill Country, the current

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