I moved out of my parents house and moved in with friends. I was 15.

I ended up having sex with this guy that I had met not too long before that, and again I just didn't know how to say no to him. I didn't feel good enough about myself to tell him that I didn't want to have sex with him. I found out from another girl who also had sex with him before me that he had HIV.

I didn't believe her at first. I was, you know, horrified, I had never met anybody with AIDS before. The stereotype of a person with HIV was a gay man, you know. It literally never, never once even occurred to me that I could contract HIV.

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