I don’t know if I knew what the word meant, but I learned quickly. One of them explained that Jerry’s father was an alcoholic. The phone was answered by a cursing, drunken voice telling me Jerry could not come over that day or any day. One day I called his house to see if we could play. One of my sadder memories involves my fourth-grade friend Jerry.1He and a half-dozen of us were an ever-present, inseparable fixture on the playground. And a person needn’t have leprosy to feel quarantined. We may not build colonies or cover our mouths in their presence, but we certainly build walls and duck our eyes. ![]() ![]() The Ancient East hasn’t been the only culture to isolate their wounded, however. “The banishing of a leper seems harsh, unnecessary.
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