I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

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

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

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