Go to the computer room, don’t make fun of Potter and go back to your class to talk to Potter about the fake ID:.Then you have to choose between Rene & Potter (best choice) After the 1st class: Talk to Stephania & Steven (hall), and also talk to Brandy (class).Talk to Steven & Vanessa (near your class) and help Stephania (1RP).Get dressed (your room – Closet) and go to Lizzie’s Room: Knock (+1RP), or 1st Floor Bathroom: Knock. Lizzie: Be nice with her to get 50 bucks, tell her “Happy Birthday Lizzie” to get 2RP & 1 LP, and also “Don’t worry, I will talk to Phill.(Photo of Edward is by Claudia Leisinger.No More Secrets Walkthrough And Guide – Episode 1 It is open from 11:00 to 18:00 on these days and is free. The story of John, Stephen, Ian and André mustn’t be a secret. Thirty years after Diana opened the first AIDS ward in London at the former Middlesex Hospital, I think it’s important we ensure that as many people as possible get to know how people lived and cared for each other on The Ward. He told me his son didn’t know he had AIDS.ĪIDs helped me to come out and learn to be myself. When I got there, he was having a barney with a young man I’d never seen before. About a year later, I got a call to say he was in a hospice, and would I go and see him. After a couple of years, I got a paid job at the Trust and another buddy took my place. I didn’t ask who they were, and he didn’t tell me. But on the shelf by the chair where he sat, there were two or three small black and white photos of a young boy, maybe less than ten, and possibly a girl. I don’t remember there being any pictures or books in his flat. He always found someone, which I admired. And when he’d been to the heath, he would throw me a look that was half-pleased, half-rueful, and say something like ‘got what I wanted’. Sometimes he thought out loud about maybe getting a taxi one night to Hampstead Heath. I went to see him in the evenings, and he gave me tea and biscuits. He lived alone, frequently redecorating his flat, always the same shade of white. He wasn’t like John, Stephen, Ian and André, living like a family on The Ward. The PWA (person with AIDS) I buddied, later PLWA (person living with AIDS), lived up the road from me in a flat that felt empty. Explaining why he had volunteered, a guy in my cohort summed up his motivation as wanting to have a ready answer if he were ever asked: ‘What did you do in the war, Daddy?’ To me, that was it. I’d never met (and haven’t since) such a glorious mix of people working together to make a difference. I volunteered for two reasons: because I wanted to come out, and because I wanted to be part of the community of people fighting AIDS. Edward Kellow is a trustee of the chapel. When I became a buddy, I just added a new category to my index of secrets. I learned how to keep a secret when I worked for an intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence. The buddy trainers drilled us on the importance of maintaining confidentiality and managing interpersonal boundaries. You see, I trained as a volunteer buddy with the Terrence Higgins Trust in 1989. My second thought was, should I be looking at such pictures that are so private? I find the combination of openness and intimacy in Mendel’s photos shocking, in a good way. He was about the same age as John, Stephen Ian and André, and, like them, if he had lived long enough to start on the treatments that were coming in, he might have been alive today. From the time I met him, I knew and I didn’t know what would happen. I wouldn’t ever have got to know him had he not had AIDS. The pictures were taken in 1993, the same year a friend of mine died. When I first saw Gideon Mendel’s photographs (part of The Ward exhibition) of John, Stephen, Ian and André, I thought how beautiful they are, and how brave.
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