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Anonymous
>>416741 Actually, the poor man in your photo is one of the Japanese victims of Hansen's disease (leprosy). I watched a biography on him. I didn't see it from the beginning, so when I first saw him, I thought he was a Hiroshima survivor, too. But the program said it was leprosy, and talked about how he was diagnosed at age 13 or 14 (he's in his 70s now, I believe), and taken away from his family and isolated. It was such a tragic show, too, but he's pretty much accepted his fate, and he's a poet now. Completely blind, can't smell, but can still taste, apparently. Until I saw that program, I had no idea that leprosy was as disfiguring as that. Now I can understand why people feared the disease as much as they did.
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