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There’s suffering. There’s sickness. There’s vomiting. There’s blood. There’s even death. Just when you think you can get way from the terror in Philadelphia, it gets you and it gets your family while your each sleeping in your own little beds, dreaming of fairies and marshmallows, and the boy down the road. You have no idea it is here, and you have no idea it would come for you…it’s the yellow fever and nothing less. The setting of this story is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1793. Philadelphia is a peaceful town, well actually the capital of the newly found United States. But rumors of disease start going around. One of the main characters, and the narrator of the story, is Madeline Cook, or Mattie for short. Mattie is a 14 year old girl who is ambitious, and not to mention adventurous. She has brown hair and is very nice. Another main character is Mattie’s grandfather. He is your stereotypical grandfather. He has gray hair and spoils Mattie more than anything. Grandfather was in a war and is very proud of it. He displays the sword that he used in the front room of the family coffeehouse. The