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Even at church, people would not shake my hand.
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Shake
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I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
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Death
Faces
Thirteen
Years
Face
Came
Old
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I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.
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Hospitals
Next
Thirty
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Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.
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Athlete
Entertainers
Giving
Stars
Athletes
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A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.
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My Time
Planning
Thinking
Life Time Thinking
Searching
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Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
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New York
Firsts
Give Me
Giving
Support
Figure
Mayor
Public Figure
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Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
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Jobs
Mom
Financial
Financial Hardship
Good Job
Rough
Hardships
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The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
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Aids
Guidelines
Hiv
School
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People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
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Get Up
People
Anywhere
Near
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The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
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Firsts
Six
Years
Life My Life First
Hospital
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Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
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Prejudice
School
Stills
Attend
Won
Eventually
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My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
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Aids
Names
Sixteen
White
Years
Ryan
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Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
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Aids
Battle
Discrimination
Hiv
Recently
Surrounding
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How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
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Eye
People
Public Eye
Towns
Me People How
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
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Mom
Mother
Welcome
Anywhere
Labeled
Unfit
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Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.
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Fighter
Goal
High Goals
Months
Six
Myself I Am Goals
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This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
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Interviews
Media
News
News Media
Appearances
Numerous
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Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
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Guarantees
Listening
People
Percent
Enough People
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My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.
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Honor
Important
Roles
Recently
Studies
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Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
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Aids
Kissing
Panic
People
Saliva
Sweat
Tears
Caused
Rumors
Spreading
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Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
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Education
Aids
Discrimination
Hiv
Lying
Panic
Lack
Lies
Surrounded
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I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
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Believe
Hamilton
Looks
School
Graduating
Heights
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We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.
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Attending
Court
Nine
Nine Months
Series
Battles
Began
Classes
Telephone
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I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
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Letters
School
Support
World
Received
Thousands
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My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
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Ignorance
Held
Realized
Victims
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Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
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Blood
Broke
Week
Twice
Factor
Injections
Receive
Twice A Week
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We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
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Education
Faith
Great Faith
Helpful
Understanding
Attitudes
Changing
Minds
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On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.
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Aids
December
Doctors
Hours
Inches
Mother
Pneumonia
Remove
Surgery
Two
Due
Lung
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I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.
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Kids
Educated
Facts
Hamilton
Just One
Parent
School
Me Parents School
Believed
Heights
Listened
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AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
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Family
Sister
Mom
Aids
Giving Up
Proud
Sorry
Taught
Destroy
Luckily
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The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
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Dream
Movie
Accepted
Aids
Bigger
Desire
Moving
Reality
School
White
Life Daily Reality
Avoid
Became
Daily
Ryan
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