Hilo man recounts harrowing experience at leper colony

When Hilo resident Stanley Martin was 13 years old, he was diagnosed with leprosy, taken away from his mother, and transferred to Molokai where he would be cut off from the outside world until he turned 25. ADVERTISING When Hilo

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