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Roald Dahl’s letter about his 7-yr-old dying from measles is a must read for our time

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Children's author Roald Dahl lost his 7-year-old daughter Olivia to measles-induced encephalitis in 1962 , the year before the measles vaccine was invented.

Dahl dedicated two of his books to Olivia : James and the Giant Peach when she was still alive and The BFG after her death.

Dahl wrote a letter to parents in the UK in 1988 urging them to vaccinate their children.

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62

Informative language

60

Neutral language

55

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

42

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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