00:00Every milestone been clouded with, gee, that's great, but if only he didn't have AIDS.
00:30I remember getting his eighth-grade graduation suit, and while I'm picking it out, saying,
00:34God, please don't let this be the suit I buried him in.
00:38My mom didn't think I was going to make it to be 10, 11, and then it was 16, and then it was 18, and then it was 21.
00:47So in many ways, I kind of spoiled him rotten.
00:51I figured if he wasn't going to be here long, he was going to have the best life I could give him.
00:55When he was seven years old, I gathered together a bunch of his friends and rented a limo
01:01to take them down to the Hershey Hotel where they had a weekend sleepover.
01:06I mean, who does that? You know, who does that?
01:09But I'm figuring, you know, he may not be here next year, so he's having this.
01:13This is what he wants, he's having it.
01:16And I did that a lot.
01:18He received a lot of attention, and he lapped it up, as he still does.
01:23I definitely felt that I should be the center of very by his life.
01:29One woman said, why are you indulging this child like this?
01:32Here you have created this monster that the rest of the world is going to have to deal with.
01:36I just felt like I had failed him early in his life, and if it was anywhere I could make it up, I was going to try.
01:47One woman said, why are you still there?
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