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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • You should send her Roald Dahl’s letter. Or tell her to pass it on to her child, since that is who he directed it at.

    The death of his daughter is absolutely heartbreaking. Before a vaccine was available. The monsters and assholes that think it’s cute and clever and “because mah immune system” and other bullshit become all the more insufferably stupid when you read something like this:

    As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?”, I asked her. “I feel all sleepy”, she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. … I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered.