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The desperate effort to ensure family lines also resulted in baby booms. While these baby booms were stabilized by recurring bouts of the plague, the large influx of children resulted in another phenomenenon of the plague -- a large generation gap. In the early 1400s, Tuscany reports a surprisingly large percentage of inhabitants 60 years and older for a community still heavily depopulated, while the largest portion of society was made up of children and youth.
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