![]() On one level, he is facing Roger’s two year death which will be followed by his own illness and death. So the burden falls upon Paul to care for Roger, to keep him going, even while he fails step by step from this disease. Also, little could be done for the AIDS patient other than try the drug AZT on them, which didn’t do much. This was because they were engaging in risky sexual behavior without knowing it was risky until the epidemic was upon them. This story takes place during the first wave of the AIDS epidemic, the one where gays were particularly hard hit. Both lovers will ultimately die but the force wrenching them apart is the AIDS epidemic, not their families. This memoir reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. Most of their friends are also gay and from similar backgrounds. ![]() They both went to school in the Ivy League. Paul is a screenwriter and novelist and Roger has been a lawyer with a major LA firm. For this very real memoir though, Paul is still in good health and able to care for Roger in their Los Angeles home. ![]() Paul himself is infected with HIV and will die of AIDS in 1995 which he will recount in the memoir which follows this one. ![]() This is a love story written by a gay man, Paul Monette, about his lover and longtime companion, Roger Horowitz, who is dying of AIDS in the late 1980s. ![]()
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