1943-1945: (The Third Epidemic: Marriage — Jeanne Finding That Despite Wartime Insecurity Fluctuating Markets the Flu and Death a Third Epidemic Raged On, In…

1943-1945: (The Third Epidemic: Marriage — Jeanne Finding That Despite Wartime Insecurity Fluctuating Markets the Flu and Death a Third Epidemic Raged On, Informing Her Siblings of Invitations to and Attendance at Weddings Nearly Every Week Between November 1943 and May 1945 She Sharing a Phrase from a Friend Who Suggested the Incessant Marriages Were Akin to an “Epidemic”): Jeanne found that despite the wartime insecurity, fluctuating markets, the flu, and death, a third epidemic raged on. Informing her siblings of invitations to and her attendance at weddings nearly every week between November 1943 and May 1945, she shared a phrase from another friend who suggested that the incessant marriages were akin to an epidemic — the framing was sardonic and analytical: marriage as contagion, spreading through the social class with the same inexorable momentum as influenza.