This comment is by Adam McPhee on Kile Ozier’s post: “Good Grief“.
Adam said:
“In my work with the Toronto’s People With AIDS foundation (PWA), I find men who are healing from something new. When they were diagnosed with HIV, they were given 2-3 years to live. They tanked their lives into partying and substance abuse because they felt they didn’t have long to live.
30 years later, they’re still here, and now they are trying to cope with a life that was damaged not because of the virus they contracted, but because of the nosedive they took from the societal estrangement and the physician prescribed death-knell.
These men did not expect to live, and now they are learning how to try and live again.”
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