Behind the Golden Eyes
Prologue
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The Edwardian Era/Period
1901 – 1919
Once, I was just an ordinary person.
While it was true our family was richer than most, we still were as ordinary as all the any of the others. We were upper middle class, moderately wealthy; my father being a successful lawyer and my mother was the faithful wife. My father, Edward Masen Senior, brought back presents for his wife; my mother, Elizabeth Masen, socialised, as was expected of her, with other ladies and I was the well mannered son – our life was comfortable, but as run of the mill as a life could be.
All I worried about was the war and the coming of my eighteenth birthday and I knew my mother was also worried. The day I turned eighteen, I would be eligible for the draft to go to war.
Little did we know that the Spanish Influenza would strike less than a month after the age was lowered to eighteen and that we needn't have worried at all – about that particular issue, anyway. There was something new to be concerned about.
Because that was when everything changed.
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Author's Note (situated here for suspenseful reasons): I am not American. I know close to nothing about American history. Do not kill me for any mistakes I have made – I'm researching as much as I can on the Spanish Influenza and the Edwardian Period. Not to mention I had to look up American middle classes – where lawyers belong to the higher middle class.
Upper middle class: (ca. 15) White collar professionals with advanced post-secondary education such as physicians, professors, lawyers, corporate executives, and other management. (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)
Disclaimer: Not mine. I just play with the characters.
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