World AIDS Day Essay: RENT Made All My Pre-Teen Friends Want to Be HIV-Positive Drug Addicts

Diana Kleinman*’s twelfth birthday was a sleepover. About a dozen of us were invited to her nice, clean home the San Fernando Valley. We played truth-or-dare, whacked a piñata, and ordered pizza. After clapping our congratulations at Diana over her ability to blow out twelve candles with a single exhalation, we all went upstairs, unrolled our sleeping bags, and spent the next two hours singing our little pre-teen hearts out to the RENT soundtrack. More » Post from: Crushable

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