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An AIDS Awakening by Robert P. Hopkins Triumph Books, $19.95

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At the Outwrite conference of gay and lesbian writers held last February in Boston, I attended a panel on the AIDS memoir. During the question and answer period, some-

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one in the audience mentioned that he thought the AIDS memoir had already been written quite well by Paul Monette and others. He said that we should move on to other things.

Most of us sat there in shock, thinking of the ways each person experiences this disease differently, and the number of people

who have been silenced. There are so many stories left to tell.

I must admit, however, that when I said that out loud last February, I was not thinking of stories like the recent Sean's Legacy: An AIDS Awakening by Robert P. Hopkins.

This book is not aimed at lesbians, gay men, or anyone with much knowledge of AIDS. The cross on the book jacket's spine, and the photo of Sean as an acolyte in the Catholic church opposite the title page, both signal that this story is different from those told before.

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There were many times I wished points in the story had been more deeply developed or challenged, but I am not the intended audience. There are others, I am sure, that need to hear this story presented in a very basic way. It is interesting to see the AIDS memoir in this type of direction.

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