Word: kailiino
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...years ago, as my parents were moving into a retirement home, we found Alexander's adoption papers, handwritten in elegant script and signed by two Hawaiians, Kailiino and Kekua, first names only, as was the Hawaiian practice at the time. While on vacation that spring in Maui, I took the papers into the Lahaina Restoration Foundation in hopes of learning more. "Too bad the name is Jardin and not Farden," said the museum director. He showed me a book, Sweet Voices of Lahaina: The Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known...
...were. Alexander, the "adopted" child Christoph brought with him to the mainland, was in fact his son, born to a handsome Hawaiian woman named Kailiino. Alexander's younger brother Charles, who had been too young to make the Pacific crossing, stayed behind with his mother. Charles Farden grew up to be a successful sugar-plantation overseer and had 13 children of his own. He tried once to find his brother on a trip to New York, but he failed...
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