I was standing there in the little airport with a ticket in my hand bound back to my hometown. There was a group of college girls standing in a circle singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads". I stood there in a daze watching them. I will never forget that song. Only a few moments before I was in the college cafeteria eating lunch alone. When a nurse walked in and announced my name. I remember the walk to her office. Almost passing out. Knowing why she called me, but a million other reasons I could think of that she wouldn't say it. I was in nursing school in the job corps and back in those days, an HIV test was mandatory. She said "follow me". I sat there in front of 4 people at a desk and they told me that I had tested positive for HIV. I stared and even started to laugh hysterically. I joked that I would find any reason to get out of class. A counselor came in to talk with me, I was still in a daze. I remember her asking me if I liked Greg Louganis, who had ...