30STANDING AT THE marina, Teresa looked out at the bay where the boats came and went bringing letters, clothes and mementos from families of inmates living in the “outside world”—that’s how she conceived of the two worlds, here was a world of confinement, segregation and strict rules governing daily living and that which was beyond the bay was outside, free, careless and with a future. There was another smaller outside world in Culion—the districts of the island reserved for the sano or the clean ones, mostly the Sanitarium doctors, medical and administrative staff and their families. She and the other patients were not allowed to go out of their districts, separated from the non-leper area by an arch and a gate where a big dish of antiseptic chemical was regularly placed. The clean ones w
