Confessions of a Teenage Leper

"In high school days are like light years. You have all the time in the world, and that world belongs to the young, and you are the young; you will never die, and you will always be beautiful. Then you get Hansen's disease and your life explodes. My name is Abby Furlowe and this is the story of how I became a teenage leper"--Dust jacket flap.