Huge fan of @neil-gaiman 's Sandman. Thought the concept of attributing a real life mystery illness barely anyone remembers nowadays to a fictional event was brilliant.
Well, I've been working on my family tree on an off for the last few years, and guess what? I just came across my great aunt's death certificate. She died at one and a half years, and the cause of death was encephalitis lethargica.
To recognize that illness because of the Sandman is so surreal.
Not to mention I had 80's synthwave music playing in the background when I came across it.
I don't know how to feel. Such a weird thing, to learn my great grandmother mourned a child that got taken away from due to an illness I read about in comics and thought of as "cool" in the most detached manner as possible.
