A diary written during the days of the influenza pandemic of 1918 was found in Lesli Hiller's family's upstate farm when she was 8, in the 1970s. Reading it during today's pandemic, Hiller describes how people in the early 1900s reacted differently to sickness and death in their midst. Credit: Kendall Rodriguez

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