In a Heartbeat
“It was the disease that was in fashion at the time. Strangely enough, it had never occurred to me to get checked even after half the people I knew were dropping like flies. Maybe because I thought that it would never happen to me. Anyway, I finally made the decision to go. It was after a sore throat that I’d had a few months before I found myself in this new life. I kept feeling my armpits, looking for any weird swellings. I was checking my temperature three times a day. The week before I got t...he results was the worst week of my life. I was sure that I was HIV-positive thanks to some whore or a dirty glass. They said that you couldn’t get AIDS from saliva, but how could you really be sure? I was completely wasted while I waited in the queue at the clinic for the results. They told me that I was negative, and for a second I thought that I had AIDS. I mean ‘negative’ is a negative word, isn’t it? Anyway, I was OK.My present social position, however, permitted me to avoid the wait.MoreLess
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