I don't care how long with you live with HIV, I will always have a huge problem with the term "long-term survivor." Unlike breast cancer (as an example), you're never "free" of HIV, whether you've hit undetectable or some year marker. I knew the dialog I had in mind for this strip but couldn't come up with a setting. But once I figured what my "buddies" and I were doing ... fishing for how to phrase something properly ... it all came together pretty well.
	Select Another Strip Bedtime TV Vacationing in Damascus The HIV Drug with NO Side Effects A Letter from Bill Frist Paintball! Dangerous Comics Hello, My Name Is... Comic Strip Characters Convention Got Some Bad News and Some Good News Just Needs a Little Salt On the Way to a Million The First AIDS Musical Martha Stewart Is in Our Dumpster Saving Face Too Many Balls Pills: How NOT to Be Seen On Hold The USA Today Pie Chart The Call in the Middle of the Night A Delicate Operation The HIV+ Paper Chase The FDA Meets Homeland Security Buffy the Former Vampire Slayer Drug Trials & Tribulations Food Glorious Food A Visit with Nick and Jessica The Price Is So NOT Right Counting Blue Pills Shipping to India The Stay-out-of-Jail Card The Good Name of Tina The ADAP Duck O Canada Queer Eye for the HIV+ Guy Joining the X-Men Back in Our Day You HAVE to Do a Strip About... The Fishing Trip The Flasher and the Drag Queen At Bat I Want My HIV TV! The HIV+ Dating Game Emily Litella Dawn Averitt The Football Heartsong Laverne & Shirley... and the Rest We Have SO Much in Common Just My Type I´d Like to Teach the World to Sing We´re All Wasted! Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Another Day the Earth Stood Still Where DO They Get These Numbers? The Cheap Cell Phone The Sustiva Olympics The Math Lesson September 11, 2001 Baggage Is That a Greg Louganis in Your Pocket... Returning to Work Bridget Jones´Diary, Pt. 2 A Card for Every Occasion They´re Too Small for Me Fraudulex Undetectable Meeting Judd Rapunzel Planning a Vacation Dr. Laura & the Tribal Council Expiration Dates Rocker Sensitivity Training Milk Thistle John Rocker Horror Picture Show 60 Years from Now Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? Therapies of Tomorrow Expanding One´s Vocabulary Livin´ HIV Loca Bewitched Green Acres Radio Radio Lucy Does a Protease Inhibitor Commercial Titanic Breaking the Record Disclosure Today Mushrooms Rent Condoms Come to South Park Barebacking Sleeping Beauty Cocktail Attire Pets Virus Wars Half-Full or Half-Empty Christmas Wishes They´re Outside Smoking The HOV Lane The Protease Nazi Phantom of the Office Campfire Stories Peer Counseling On Trial Travelin´ Medicine Show Secret Origins Water Water Everywhere Good Sex Vengeance Is Mine... The 100 T-Cell Pyramid Telling Others The Original Three Episodes					originally appeared August, 2003

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