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Charles King Has a Dream

Cross-Country Crusaders

Quoth the Raven




A Trip to Bountiful

Doctor's Diary - September 2005

Combo Vision

Hearts and Chocolate

The New HIV Bouncers

Foreign Agents

Positively Fit

Fitness 101

Weep No More

Ask the Sexpert - September 2005

Antibody Snatcher

The DL Deal

Legal Eye - September 2005

Medicaid Watch

Savings and Moan

Freedom to Worship

Spirit Guide




Teenage Wasteland

Shooting Gallery

HIV Hot Spots for Injections

Buzz Kill

Run for the Border

Mentors - September 2005

I Say a Little Prayer

Easy Come, Easy Go

Forever a Fighter




Founder's Letter - September 2005

Mailbox - September 2005


Most Talked About

Magic Johnson Accused of Faking HIV (42)

World AIDS Day: Your Feedback (22)

Guidelines Prediction: Start Treatment Earlier (blog) (19)

My First Facebook Demo (blog) (18)

Bone Marrow Transplant: Potential AIDS Cure? (9)

Obama Campaign Set to Boost Domestic HIV/AIDS Funding (8)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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September 2005


Spirit Guide

by David Evans

How they found the light

Leo Egashira
Seattle, WA
Diagnosed 1992

Board member of Dignity USA, one of the nation’s largest group representing lesbian and gay Catholics

THE NEED: “When I got the diagnosis in 1992, it devastated me. It’s difficult to sort out what part of it was a spiritual crisis. But I think it’s that moment where you feel like Jesus on the cross, saying ‘God, why have you abandoned me?’”
THE CREED: “Spiritually based support groups were enormously helpful to me.”

Kellie Caspar
Atlanta, Georgia
Diagnosed 2000

THE NEED: “I had already worked through so much—and it gave me a way to cope. There are still times I rail at God, but most often I am almost grateful for my diagnosis, because it truly helped me to put life in perspective.”
THE CREED: “My greatest comfort is my friends, my family and my walk with God. I know it sounds corny—and I would have rolled my eyes at that six years ago—but it’s the truth.”                                          

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