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My Journey With Leprosy

by Jose P., Jr. Ramirez

Squint

Hardcover, 220 pages, Univ Pr of Mississippi, List Price: $28 | purchase

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Author Recounts His 'Journey With Leprosy'

Jose P. Ramirez Jr. had been sick for years before a Mexican healer told him he had "a disease of the Bible." He was 20 when he was diagnosed with leprosy, known as Hansen's disease. In his memoir Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez writes about his life and recovery at the leprosarium in Carville, La.

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