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Marvelline Brown. Jesus. This book, first of all, it is raw and real and beyond HIV.

You know, this story, there are people walking around with viruses that may not force them to take pills every day because of relationships like this one.

What's the relationship with your parents?

You write about your daddy being a daddy's girl and how accepting was your family?

Because again, there's a stigma. What relationships did you lose as a result of this?

This was not your fault. But what relationships did you lose? What relationships were revealed as a result?

Talk about that. I want to say like it's definitely two sides to every story.

Being so young and things changing for me, I would say none of my family turned their back on me.

However, there was ignorance there and there was an education there, which caused me to feel a different type of way

in different situations as you would feel alone as you would feel no one understands you or no one

gets you or no one's trying to comprehend like it's still to this day yeah I'm marveling and

you know I do this and I do that but I'm'm still HIV positive. Like, I can't do all of that. Like, you know, you see me here, but you didn't see me this morning. I had a little bad reaction to my medication. You didn't see me trying to fight being nauseous. Or if I say I'm tired, I'm tired I'm tired like I feel positive I know I look good

I look just like you but I'm still fighting a virus and no it's not you know a death sentence

I would say that in a way because if I stop taking my medication right now, it surely would kill me.

You know, I have to do so much, so much comes into, you know, just my HIV life and then I got the other one, you know, the personal one.

So that's something as well.

So what is it like, has it been like to have relationships, you know,

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