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Can anyone out there recognize this book? > It was in the seventies that I read this book. I read a fiction book > about an epidemic that wiped out most people in the country (USA). > There > were pockets of people who survived and they were able to use the water > system and even electricity at first, but soon these systems needed to > be > repaired and there was nobody who knew how to repair them. So life > became > more primitive. Also these people became fearful of travelers who might > bring disease and wipe their little colony out again. The original > narrator of the book lived a long life and had with him something from > civilization. This "something"(I wish I remembered what) was now a > talisman for the younger generations who believed it had magic power. > It > made quite and impression on me and I was not keeping track of what I > read at the time so I have totally lost it. It was probably the late > 70's. > THanks Patsylvan [log in to unmask]