Experience: I have lived in the dark for a decade

The light seeping in at the edges of the curtains caused irritation. Watching TV became painful. Even opening the fridge would set my body tinglingIn 1987 I was diagnosed with HIV. Back then, it was a death sentence. I watched friends and loved ones dying around me. I’d served in Vietnam and it felt like something similar: one amazing person after another falling away. All still young. All still with so much to live for. Somehow, I survived both, and since the 90s have constantly been on d