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ColinC

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6. When I was about 11 or 12 years old, my mother was a case nurse for an AIDs foundation

Reply to mahina (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 03:11 AM

Aug 2021

She was taking me to school when a picture of a little girl -a few years younger than me fell out her purse. I said, "Mom, who is that?" She said, "that's... a client of mine." In complete denial, I said "why is she a client?" She looked at me, matter of factly and just said "figure it out." My heart sank for that little girl and everybody who had to live and die with that disease. And it still does...

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