Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. Sadako's home was about a mile from the epicenter, and her family survived. When she was an eleven-year-old school athlete, she began to experience weakness, lumps on her neck, and spots on her legs. Sadako was diagnosed with leukemia, with a life expectancy of a year. She survived until 1955, but this article I wrote for mental_floss is about what happened after her death.
I was thinking about all the things I learned reading pieces you wrote, mainly for Mental Floss, and posted. Then it dawned on me, if I learned that much from reading it, you must have learned an order of magnitude more by writing it.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. I've become rather annoying at family reunions.
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