Donkey God

Growing up in the 80’s was a great time in my life. One thing about this era that was sad is that it was the time Aids started to kill people. At first everybody thought it was a gay disease and that if you weren’t gay you couldn’t catch it. As I remember it was in the mid 80’s when heterosexuals and people that used IV drugs started to catch the disease as well. Because of this a lot of research was started and expanded the scope of knowledge surrounding the disease. This was good as a better understanding of the disease was needed.

When I was growing up I was very close to my little sister Rachel. I was six and a half years older than her and as a result took care of her on a frequent basis,and loved it. In later years she got hooked to drugs during college. It bothered everybody in our family that she used drugs. This went on for years. In the spring of 2003 my sister tested positive for Aids. The day I learned of this I was so incredibly sad because that was the day that I knew my sister stopped caring whether she lived anymore or died.