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“The women in the kitchen sang: Sarampión toca la puerta. Viruela dice: ¿Quién es? Y Escarlatina contesta: ¡Aquí estamos los tres! The cook would sometimes shout a little madly, “Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!”

Book:Teresa of the New World

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Teresa of the New World

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Sharman Apt Russell

Sharman Apt Russell is an American writer born in 1954. Her works span across multiple genres including science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction, earning her praise from readers and critics for her unique imagination and profound thematic explorations. more

“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who followed the north side of the Platte in 1836 on horseback, "becoming the first white women to cross the American continent," and who, along with her husband, Marcus, was "massacred by Cayuse Indians" at their Protestant mission in 1847 in Walla Walla, Washington. (The Indians there were justifiably enraged at the whites for spreading measles to them.)”

Measles Dry Humor

Book:Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

Source: Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

“Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

The Program

Author:Suzanne Young

“Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people’s physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel”

Giggling

Book:Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Source: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

“Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live.”