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caralou

AIDS camp/Bahamas journal

Jul 12, 2007 22:41

To those who expressed an interest in reading my real journal stuff:
This is completely unedited, and perhaps there are a few typos. If I were to revise this, I'm sure it would be much different. This is as raw as it gets. I make no apologies, I just explain. Thanks for being interested in my life enough to want to read this. :o) I had a five- ( Read more... )

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tofuforyou July 13 2007, 03:46:37 UTC

Wow.

belindajane July 13 2007, 19:03:45 UTC

thanks for sharing. it's nice to get a look into this experience in your life, i appreciate it.

caralou July 14 2007, 12:24:25 UTC

welcome. :o)

Um, and I have a fun story about that userpic:

One of my friends loves the original Ghandi quote associated with it, and decided to get a tattoo of "Be the Change" on the back of her neck. When she got home to look at it, it read "Be he chong". She had to wait a few weeks and get a different tattoo over top of it.

stealingjoy July 14 2007, 08:53:22 UTC

That's pretty rough. I wonder if Erica had loved dancing before she became sick. It's sad to think of all that hope and life that becomes nothing. How old was she?

caralou July 14 2007, 12:16:24 UTC

She looked to be in her 30s but I have no idea.

It was very sad to be surrounded by all that, but actually most people who were in the camp were very happy. It was definitely a strange mix of emotions to be surrounded by. Erica was definitely the person in the worst health that I encountered, but it breaks my heart to think that the other 32 residents there will all be in her condition eventually. Not like something won't kill me one day, but you know what I mean. Maybe just knowing how they're going to go is the release they feel?