The stories featured in this ballad are all highly individual. Cecilia is a Ugandan woman who fled her home country and contracted HIV/AIDS while in the UK; Betty Feldman speaks of her actor son who died of the virus; Ann Marie, a white South African, lost her British husband to the illness then discovered that he'd passed it on to her. Sophie discovered she was HIV-positive on her graduation day and went on to marry her boyfriend, with whom she hopes to have children; Maxwell, a teenage schoolboy in London, has a father who is also HIV-positive and Lynn, in her early twenties, contracted the virus through a blood transfusion.
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