Deathly ill, when AIDS had no name, and blood was not being screened, I had to sign my life away to get platelets. I took them. But if I didn't have to, I damn sure wouldn't.
And then there was the grief of losing a baby and the waiting....ten years and several pregnancies later...to know if I was clean.
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