How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.