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WBUR's Here & Now: 'The Recollectors' Gives Voice To Children Who Lost Parents To AIDS

When Alysia Abbott was 22, her dad died of AIDS. It was San Francisco, 1992. Even though her dad was out as a gay man at the time, she wasn't out about his illness. There was so much shame and stigma, and she didn't know anyone else who shared her experience. Not until many years later, when she met Whitney Joiner, who had also lost her father to AIDS the very same year, in rural Kentucky...Read more