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Americans adopt lepers children to save them from misery
In Ohion South Korea Chin Wu Bum and his wife lepers send their two daughters Jun Sook and Hae Sook to America in Operation Outreach with six other children. Adoption aims to spare the children a life of social isolation and hardship. medical experts say leprosy is rarely contagious and not inherited.
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Ohion
South Korea
Chin Wu Bum
Chin
America
Jun Sook
Hae Sook
Korea
Long Island
Putnam County
N.Y
Washington, D.C
United States
Lee Kyong-Jai
St. Lazarus
Father Lee
St. Lazarus Village