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- Dulce Maria Mora
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- Location: Maywood, IL
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- "Losing a Friend to AIDS"
- Summary: Hearing that her friend has had unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person leads Youth Radio’s Leah Chapple-Stingley to reflect on another time and place.
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Review of Losing a Friend to AIDS
Dulce Maria Mora
Posted on April 28, 2005 at 11:47 AM
Leah wonders why we sleep with people without protection, and as she recounts the suffering of her friend, I wonder as well. A loved one’s irresponsibility provides the catalyst for this poetic and personal essay. The topic lends itself to a more emotional delivery, nevertheless she does manage to mark a clear distinction between the casual “I’m thinking I’m gonna get this big, fat, juicy piece of gossip” and the latter “his bones stuck through his skin coat like death”. The story alone is enough to draw you in, but the eloquent writing is what kept me engaged. The piece is short and sweet; perfect for any show looking to reveal the human side of a worldwide epidemic.