It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.  --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Written By Dave Eggers

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