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KATIE'S campaign against vermin and disease started the day her children entered school. The battle was fierce, brief, and successful.
Packed closely together, the children innocently bred... vermin and became lousy from each other. Through no fault of their own, they were subjected to the most humiliating procedure that a child could go through.