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Title: No Footprints in the Sand: A Memoir of Kalaupapa
Author: Henry Kal Nalaielua with Sally-jo Keala-o-anuenue Bowman
Year: 2007
Publisher: Watermark Publishing
192 pages
As a boy, Henry Nalaielua was diagnosed with leprosy, removed from his family, and made an involuntary resident first of a hospital on Oahu, then the leper colony at Kalaupapa on Molokaʻi. His life story is linear and picaresque (and then I did this, and then I did that) but still very interesting, especially his account of daily life in Kalaupapa and the ways his life intersected with aspects of Father Damien's.
One peeve: No, you didn't say "Me yamo" to someone; you said "Me llamo." It's a small point, but it bugs me when people don't correctly represent languages they say they speak.
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