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This one deals with the events of the healing of the lepers on the road from the point of view of the one who came back to say 'Thank you'.
The Thankful Leper
My life changed forever when he spoke to me. Don’t get me wrong. I knew who he was – everyone knows him – even you. And he had already touched me, But it was when he spoke to me that my life changed.
I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me try and put this into some sort of order. Let me try and start at the beginning.
The beginning I don’t remember that far back. All my adult life I’d not been a part of society. I’d been cast out, set apart. I was unclean, diseased, something to be feared. So in their wisdom and in their ignorance society had set me apart.
And I wasn’t alone. That day there were ten of us making our way along that road. All we were trying to do was to find somewhere where we would be accepted for what we were – and be supported in our infirmity. That’s when I met him. I didn’t go looking for him, I just stumbled across him as we both went our separate ways along the road...
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