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Now that weve had a few days to brood (and recover) - lets talk about The Normal Heart on HBO. I lost my first friend in 81 - we couldnt understand how a 21 yr old could die from pneumonia in 3 weeks. Then the world turned upside down. The movie affected me much more profoundly than the play. The play was gut wrenching...but this movie was a living, breathing copy of my reality, living in NYC during the 80s. The locations and events events that were part of my life, suddenly played out cinematically. I sat there looking through a lens I never expected (or wanted) to glance through again. All the memories, the turmoil, the people lost, the memorials, the pain, the fear - it came flooding back as if it was only yesterday. I cried, I got angry, my heart ached again - it rocked me to the core. This movie is a devastating, but important memorial to the AIDS nightmare.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:04:37 +0000

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