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Hansen’s patient numbers dwindle with recent deaths

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2008

Kalaupapa resident Edwin Lelepali, above, arrived there from Palama in 1942 at the age of 14. “I cried and cried,” Lelepali said of the experience. He died Sunday at Hale Mohalu Hospital on Oahu.