ABSTRACT
One of the ways in which AIDS has purified so many of us is in how much it tells us that this is not a dress rehearsal. You are being tested, even if there is no headmaster in the sky marking the grades or giving you board scores on those tests. We are being tested by something as deep in ourselves as we could ever be. If you needed any further proof that the material world is not enough to nourish you, that success and money and career are not enough, that the only real nourishment that you can count on is love and that love is possible for all of us, that we can generate it and find it, this is it. What’s going to matter to people when they come to the end of their lives is how much they’ve loved.
