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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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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."
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"When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out."
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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood."
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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
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"I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood."
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"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."
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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me."
People


"Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support."
First


"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it."
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"A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life."
Life


"How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?"
People


"My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's."
Honor


"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."
Mother


"My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance."
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"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere."
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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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