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<v ->For the general public, I think I want people to</v>

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understand that you may not look like me,

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but there are many people around this world with HIV

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and a lot of those people look like you.

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To think that you're not at risk because you're married,

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because you're in church, because of whatever reason,

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just take the test and you'll find out, I mean,

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I think the stigmas is just ridiculous,

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if you feel like, oh, well, that person has HIV,

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they're not like me, well, I think we all are alike

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in some sort of way, I mean, like I said,

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I had never been a prostitute, I wasn't an IV drug user,

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I wasn't any of those things, and even if I was,

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it doesn't matter, we're just people with a disease

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like diabetes, like cancer, and we shouldn't be ashamed

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that we have a disease.

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I think the general public should embrace people

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and treat them like anybody else.

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If it was your mother or your child or your sister,

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would you feel the same way?

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You know, I think that until it happens to somebody

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and it happens in their family, they have a whole

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different attitude about HIV and people that live with HIV.