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(From Dear Grapevine)

In reference to “The Band Played On” (June 2004), I have been HIV+ for almost twenty-five years and have been living with AIDS since 1995. I got sober in AA in 1998. My fear was that being a gay man with HIV, I was doomed to be left out and alone with both my diseases. However, over the past six years, AA has provided every need that has come up for me both in sobriety and in my AIDS situation. I have been close to death over five times in the past six years and literally hundreds of AA members have come to my side bearing unconditional love and acceptance. I have had married men come to stay with me for two to three days at a time and feed me, change my bed clothes, and bathe me when I could barely sit up in bed. I have never wanted nor needed anything that an AA member wasn’t willing to supply me. AA also provided the most loving and caring man as a live-in attendant to assist me when I have seizures. One mens’ meeting has an “Everett” commitment, which means that I never have to find a ride to a meeting. So I don’t fear for the future, because I am in the loving arms of AA.

EVERETT A.

Santa Monica, California