Twelve-year-old Margaret Kaupuni had just danced before Honolulu's 1934 May Queen. As she left the steps a health inspector grabbed her wrist. "You are a leper, child, and you will come with me." At the leper receiving station she was positively diagnosed and sent to Kalaupapa, the leprosy settlement on Molokai. On that lonely prison island for thirty-four years, Margaret watched her dreams die and her own body scar and shrink from the disease. There...