Ranger, Georgia
Positive since 1998

Well, here’s my story. I got HIV from my second wife around 1998. She and I got a divorce.

What I don’t like about HIV is that I live in a small town and I don’t know anyone around me who has HIV. It makes it hard to date women. But my heath is in real good shape.

What three adjectives best describe you?
I’m a good worker, I have an open ear, and I’m a lover, not a fighter.

What is your greatest achievement?
My job

What is your greatest regret?
Having HIV

What keeps you up at night?
Thinking a lot

If you could change one thing about living with HIV, what would it be?
Not taking meds

What is the best advice you ever received?
Pay your bills.

What person in the HIV/AIDS community do you most admire?
Elton John

What drives you to do what you do?
Working at my job and taking my meds

What is your motto?
Stay strong.

If you had to evacuate your house immediately, what is the one thing you would grab on the way out?
My mom

If you could be any animal, what would you be? And why?
A fish in the sea so I can see all of the ocean