Brief item about a Vietnamese leper who fled to the jungle in shame, ostrasized by his village and frightened family. He spent twenty years eking out a hermit’s existence before being found and rehabilitated by a Red Cross worker and treatment center. The story is a good example of involuntary solitude. URL:
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03SOC180906
Hermits around the web – Hermitary
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