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Dr. Verghese writes a compelling narrative of how AIDS cases began appearing in Johnson City, Tennessee, and how, as an infectious disease professor at East Tennessee State University, he assumed the role of local AIDS expert. The author portrays the feelings of people with blunt honesty. He avoids being judgmental but instead, tells the stories of several patients with lurid descriptive language. For those of us who knew of the disease and its impact but never knew personally one who suffered f
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