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Lost Friendship in These Trying Times

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Lost Friendship in These Trying Times

Christine Merser
Oct 19, 2022
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Lost Friendship in These Trying Times

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I always knew she believed those things that she never said. There were signs. There was a dinner party for twelve at my apartment with H2 (husband #2) in the mid eighties and AIDS was just becoming a topic of dinner party talk. The left wing international set around our table were all talking about the horror of it, and about the long-term possibility of the annihilation of those we love. You have to have been a thirty-something during that time to understand the enormity of it, and the terror and sadness it left in its wake.

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