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Spring cleaning, anon.
>"I had no idea what it was,” says Katia, who asked that her last name not be used. But because she had suffered repeated illnesses over the preceding 2 years and had an (((alcoholic ex-boyfriend who simultaneously had other girlfriends))), she suspected that something more serious might be wrong. She asked the doctor to give her a referral for an HIV test. “Why?” he asked. “Are you going to marry a foreigner?”
“I persisted and said, ‘I’m not leaving here until I get a referral.’”
The day Katia learned the test results, she (((walked the streets for hours))) crying, unable to even find her car. The literature she received explained she had the AIDS virus and said the outlook was grim. She read that the virus, if untreated, could kill her in as few as 3 years. Katia, then 30, had a (((young daughter.)) ((( Who would raise her?))) And Katia had to hide her infection from her employer—her father.((( “If I told my father I had HIV, he wouldn’t understand. He’d run away from me. Overall, the attitude here is horrible. When I look at [Western] Europe or the United States, I don’t understand why it’s so different here.”)))
There's a lot of human jetsam floating around in the wake of the state sponsored degeneracy of the Soviet years. It's going to be a climb back to holiness, I think, but I gotta say, these people seem unsentimental enough to actually do what needs to be done