ABSTRACT
I do not know for how long I have been infected by HIV. I know I was diagnosed in January 1989, when I experienced a series of characteristic infections. From that moment on…. Of course I fear death-not any kind of death, but a special kind of death. However, I have learned not to fear life. I have learned a lot about life, although I know nothing about death, except that I need to learn how to live with it. After discovering that I had HIV, life became a cultivation of living things within myself. I cultivated an inner citizen, a citizen with an open heart. I invented my own soul.
