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  1. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren't; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.
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  2. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never
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  3. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    Before Cook's arrival the native population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand.
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  4. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    Good-for-nothing rascal, where you been the last eight months?" And she kissed him with a ferocity that quite belied her words.
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  5. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand."
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  6. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.
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  7. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    Moloka'i. It was not a name spoken lightly in these islands. Sometimes it was called "Moloka'i of the potent prayers," known for centuries as the home of powerful sorcerers capable of praying men to death, of sending giant fireballs hurtling across the sea, fiery planets of destruction seeking out hapless victims. Today the island was still an object of fear and fascination; but for very different reasons.
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  8. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    The difference between Old Honolulu and New, she would come to decide, was the difference between a beautiful woman who was simply being herself and a beautiful woman calling attention to herself: a little vain perhaps, but you couldn't say she wasn't attractive.
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  9. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.
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  10. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    I'm a practical man, Haleola. It's true, I want to save souls. But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life. If I can provide some comfort, some ease of life for those about to lose theirs, how could I hesitate to try?
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  11. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    nine years earlier. Life was still
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  12. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying"Tsunami!" as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was,after all, April Fool's Day.
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