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In this episode, we're going to pick up where we left off last week, hearing from the

forgotten people of the first and largest leprosy settlement in the US.

Around 8,000 people were sent to live in Kalopapa on the Hawaiian island of Mullahqai.

This week we heard from Doug Carrillo, whose father was one of them.

I was like six years old and somebody came to pick him up.

We were all gathered on the porch watching him live and we were all crying.

The forced separation affected families through generations, including some actually born

to patients from Kalopapa, like Linda May Lovey-Lovey.

My mom had leprosy and as soon as she delivered me, the nurse picked me up and put me in another

room.

There was windows in my mom's casino, but she never had the opportunity to touch me.

And I don't know how many weeks old I was when my adopted parents took me.

Here's producer Joe Corona with the rest of the story.

Linda May Lovey-Lovey had happy memories of her childhood.

She grew up in a loving household with six other siblings.

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