Daily writing prompt

What is the last thing you learned?

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This apparently happened occasionally during the Spanish Flu epidemic. It’s how Katherine Anne Porter, who almost died from the flu, got her signature, prematurely white hair.

I’d thought it was because physicians had dosed her with strychnine in a last-ditch attempt to save her, but a docu-drama I watched last night showed it happening to another patient and ascribed it to the fever.