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<span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Since antiquity, leprosy has struck fear into human beings. Seen as contagious, mutilating and incurable, </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">leprosy continues to alienate those who contract it </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">from their families and communities.<br><br><i><b>Leper</b></i> provides a rare and intimate glimpse into a contemporary society of lepers in a remote village in Nepal. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Villagers speak openly and emotionally about their relationship to their sickness, to the "healthy" outside community outside the village boundaries, and the myriad stigmas and misunderstandings which surround a disease that has marked their bodies and their lives.<br><br>
The villagers speak eloquently of how, after much struggle and hardship, they build new lives for themselves, recreating family and community in the context of this disease. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Their poignant and revealing stories offer heartfelt reflections on societal fears and aversions to sickness, bodily differences, and death.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #6962ad;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"Made with remarkable sensitivity, beauty and compassion, <b>Leper</b> is a tremendous resource for teaching about the stigma of disease.<br><br>
We have much to learn from the people of this small village in Nepal that can be applied to a wide spectrum of illness.<br><br>
If the empathy gained in watching this film could be used in treating patients in our country, health care would be greatly improved."</span></span></span><br><br>
—Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine</p>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"This disease takes away the beauty of your face. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">It eats up your hands and feet and makes us ugly. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">eat up your insides, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">but they leave you looking beautiful outside."</span><br><br>
"People in the villages think it is caused </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">by Naga spirits. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">So they sacrifice chickens and goats </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">and do prayer pujas. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">They did it for me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;">My parents didn't know."</span></span></span></div>
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