Nah, we got sent home with the assurance that if we needed to be tested the head of HR would get in touch with us right away.
And it is a very glamorous illness among the elite--wasting away of consumption, delicate and feverish. If you were a 19th-century novelist and wanted a tragic illness that was didn't interfere with the nobility and fineness of your character, you gave them consumption. And never mentioned the blood-coughing.
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Date: 2005-08-06 12:03 am (UTC)And it is a very glamorous illness among the elite--wasting away of consumption, delicate and feverish. If you were a 19th-century novelist and wanted a tragic illness that was didn't interfere with the nobility and fineness of your character, you gave them consumption. And never mentioned the blood-coughing.