Price of Paradise

Price of Paradise

At 55, Lindamae Lawelawe Carillo Maldonado found the family she never knew. Born on Moloka‘i’s Kalaupapa peninsula, once a place of exile for those with Hansen’s Disease, she learned she had been taken from her mother at birth. Her journey unearths a buried history of loss and reclaimed identity.

Price of Paradise

56m 46s

At 55, Lindamae Lawelawe Carillo Maldonado found the family she never knew. Born on Moloka‘i’s Kalaupapa peninsula, once a place of exile for those with Hansen’s Disease, she learned she had been taken from her mother at birth. Her journey unearths a buried history of loss and reclaimed identity.

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