did you know...?

i'm reading the book, MOLOKA'I by Alan Brennert, a novel about a girl who is torn from her family and exiled to life on Moloka'i in a leprosy settlement...if you've never heard about the settlement and what was happening on this small island of Hawaii, then it's worth doing a little research about...especially because it only ended 40 years ago in 1969. pretty crazy.