What the small round scar on your arm might indicate

a train. Same spot. Same distinctive pattern. It instantly brought back that old question: What is that scar?

I never got the chance to ask the woman, but the image stuck with me. Later, I called my mother and finally asked about it. Her answer was simple: it was from a smallpox vaccination—something many people received routinely decades ago.

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