RE: Discoloure; Barebacking

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***Ack! I keep forgetting to select "Reply to all" when replying to posts on this list.*** Before my diagnosis of full blown AIDS in 1996 I had two monogamous relationships. In both of them we'd started out having safe sex, and it was a joint decision to stop using condoms. I was able to contact only one of them, who, indeed, was now positive, and I assume the other guy was as well. Before 1996 I'd been in denial that I could possibly have been at risk. I didn't look sick and no one I'd had sex with looked sick. Yes, the other guys weren't coerced into having unsafe sex with me. For me, the only worse feeling than knowing I've infected one man, and likely two, out of my own ignorance, would be to infect someone with the full, first hand experience of knowing what being infected feels like and

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