The church organist had lost his left hand but attached a piece of wood to the stump in order to play all the organ’s notes. Occasionally two people would play the organ, as between them they had enough fingers to hit every key.38 These stories might seem dark to us, but to lepers who had felt forsaken for so long, belonging to a community again must have been wonderful. It’s completely fair to say that the lepers’ band would never have been featured on the Late Show, but that wasn’t really the point. The lepers knew that their lives would never go back to “normal.” What the lepers surely
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I know I wish I could feel like my old self. And I don't even have leprosy.
