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Olivia: My Life of Exile in Kalaupapa, is a memoir by Hawaii's celebrated leprosy activist Olivia Robello Breitha (1916-2006). The House of Olivia Breitha is very pleased to now offer this audiobook version as a richly textured companion piece to the printed work. Olivia's memoir chronicles her personal and medical history from the age of 18, when she was first diagnosed with leprosy in 1930s Honolulu. Olivia reveals herself as she never felt she could about her more than seven ages of life as Hawai'i Division of Health parolee #3306. She creates with interest of her challenges and, by extension, the challenges of a large number of others, against generations of stigma and fear. Like them she was the mark of cruelty, disdain, and scorned as "lepers". Olivia recognized that this hurtful term, like so numerous others, may never completely fade away from use. She also understood that it is extremely important to understand and expose the historical behaviour that have brought on labels such as this to be accepted in keeping parlance for far too long. Olivia has been removed from here since Sept 28, 2006. Her lifelong struggle with authority is over. But her mission to revive the rights of folks experiencing this long-misunderstood condition continues. She was a sophisticated woman who lived the life that was dealt to her, all 90 years than it. Through her thoughts and words, and the powerful narration of tone acting professional Deanna Espinas, you'll discover how Olivia Robello Breitha fulfilled every challenge at once, the small and the immense. Rather than destroying her they changed this child of Portuguese immigrants in to the powerfully eloquent social activist she was always designed to be.
