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<v ->I would to say to a person who's positive,</v>

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who does not value him or her self,

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that they should need to love themselves

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and know that the blame game

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is not a place to be.

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It's nobody's fault that you're infected.

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It's everybody's fault,

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based on the lack of communication through our public,

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our Office of Public Health, our State officials,

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our elected officials who chose

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to make AIDS a silent killer.

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I would say to them, get past the shame,

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that it's time to take responsibility

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and you decide to live.

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And put yourself in another persons place.

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What if you were the person who's negative

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and someone positive willingly and knowingly

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chose to infect you.

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How would you feel?

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I would try to offer this person a mental reason

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to have a paradigm shift, a mental paradigm shift.

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To put themselves in another persons place,

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because it's like being a serial killer.

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You are knowingly assassinating someone,

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simply because you can.