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Culion Island: A Former Leper Colony Hidden in Paradise

Once a colony where leprosy patients were quarantined for life, the island is now coming into its own.

Word spreads in the barangay that the sanitario is coming. You feared this day, ever since those patches started to appear on her arms. At first, they were easily covered under a bell-sleeved camisa, but when a pale lesion broke out ...

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