I told her that one day I'd like to have a child with her. We talked about it, we thought about it and one day she told me that she wanted to have my child. Well, we went and we did it.

I came to know about HIV right here in the United States. But I thought I'd never catch that. I had a friend at work who was very skinny, and I kept telling him, 'You've got AIDS,' teasing, 'You've got AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.' And now look at me: I'm the one who's got it.

I blame liquor, drinking.

I drank a lot and went out at night for some mischief, you know what I mean? To be with other women. And I got this on the street.

I blame myself. I did this to myself , because of the bottle. I was almost 19.

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