It happened to Nancy

Sneak Peek

I'M IN A NIGHTMARE.
I'm going to wake up any minute now. I've got to. I can see Doctor Miller's face with his eyes all glazed up, and Mom looking like she's a marble statute. We can sense something is really wrong when Doctor Miller keeps trolling us how great we are, like he can't really get out what what he wants to say. Then he slowly tells me that my blood samples have come back, and I have....the HIV virus! His mouth keeps moving, but I can't hear words anymore. I can't feel; I can't think. From far off in the distance, I can hear myself sobbing.

I've got to face it...I'm not going to have a career, or a husband or a family. My heart is bursting. I AM GOING TO DIE...