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• A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

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• Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

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• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don’t give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

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• Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

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• Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.

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• Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

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

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• Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

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• Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

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• I’m just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

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• I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

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• I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

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• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

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• I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

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• My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

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

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• Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

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• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

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• 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.

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Birth:	6th December, 1971
Death:	8th April, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Celebrity

About

Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster childfor HIV/AIDS in the United States, after being expelled from middle school because of his infection. As a hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment and, when diagnosed in December 1984, was given six months to live.

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