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The Atavist: Life after working at Hawaii's Kalaupapa leper colony
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Jan 31, 2014
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The Atavist: Life after working at Hawaii's Kalaupapa leper colony
When she graduated from college, Brooke Jarvis took a rather unusual job. She worked as a garbage lady of sorts at a leper colony on a remote peninsula of the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Cover of Brooke Jarvis's story "When We Are Called To Part" in The Atavist.
Cover of Brooke Jarvis's story "When We Are Called To Part" in The Atavist.
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When she graduated from college, Brooke Jarvis took a rather unusual job. She worked as a garbage lady of sorts at a leper colony on a remote peninsula of the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

When she graduated from college, Brooke Jarvis took a rather unusual job.

She worked as a garbage lady of sorts at a leper colony on a remote peninsula of the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Brooke wrote about the experience for the Atavist. She joins the show to tell us a bit about the experience.