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This is an AIDS Metaphor.

"Howard", 2019

Henry Giardina
Sep 21, 2020
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Two years ago, I wrote a long piece about my relationship to George, my father’s best friend and the first gay person I knew. In early drafts, the story had a lot of elements that were ultimately seen as peripheral: a 4-page discourse on Disney and the death of Broadway, for instance, that got cut because I couldn’t quite find a way to weave it into the…

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