Within weeks, Dab himself became HIV-positive and learned what it felt like to await death in isolation in 1982 as one of the first to have been diagnosed with what was then called GRID. He survived while most others died. Dab has one half of the chromosome needed for immunity. In addition to gene structure, cell receptors constitute the second front for defense against HIV, and when the disease was new and killing swiftly, there was no knowledge of receptors and certainly no medications to block them. At one point Dab had only four T cells and named them after the people closest to him, including the baby girl for whom he became foster parent during the 4.5 years of her life.
Born to an HIV-positive prostitute, who died soon after giving birth, facially deformed and with fetal alcohol syndrome, the baby girl desperately needed Dab who remembers that even the nurses in the hospital ignored her, assuming she would soon die. Dab, then 23 and …
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