Thank you, John! Once a month is amazing! I was talking with my dad yesterday about the party I write about here. While one of the people passed away, as far as he knows, the other is still living--the AIDS cocktail came out around that time, I guess? Now that it isn't so scary to learn/read about, I will familiarize myself more with the history. I'm so, so glad that science has come so far in treating HIV.

Your compassion and humanity are incredibly inspiring. Reading your work and that of Augusten Burroughs gifted me the final key I needed for writing my first memoir. Thank you!