My Grandmother Meynel Clowney Cato was attending Winthrop College for Women in 1918 when she became infected with the “Spanish Flu”.
She told me the deceased students were secretly taken out through the back doors to avoid panic in the dorm. Her fever got so high she started hallucinating and thought the walls were covered with Praying Mantises.
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