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<FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>On 9/11/06 2:00 AM, "OSLIST automatic digest system" <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Have any of you worked with People living with AIDS and can give me = advice <BR>
on things that might be of importance and that we might not think of <BR>
automatically?<BR>
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I have been working with an AIDS-focused organization here in New Jersey (USA) for nearly ten years. I have opened space for them four times that I can remember, possibly more times than that. These groups have always included people who are gay, straight, black, white, Hispanic, male, female, young, old, the highly educated, and the not-so.<BR>
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Doesn’t make any difference. They go into the space like everybody else and behave pretty much like anybody else.<BR>
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There’s only one thing I work on remembering when I’m with this client. My recognition of the seriousness of the disease is not something I want to wear on my face or demonstrate in my behavior. They do not ask for overt sympathy.<BR>
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Ralph Copleman</SPAN></FONT>
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