Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Not dead yet

Over the years (well, at least since I was offered the job of editor at SX in 2004), I've received a handful of anonymous emails cheering on my impending doom.

Given the varying levels of invective and/or mastery of basic English, I'm guessing they weren't all from the same person. The fact that they made direct reference to something I'd written, though, suggests they all came from members of the emotional baggage lost-and-found known as the Sydney gay community.

Despite the occasional shift in focus – my appearance, my opinions – they shared one overriding theme:
I "got HIV on purpose" (twenty years ago!) and would be dead before I turned 40.
Not only that, I deserved to.

Anyway, I'm 41 today.

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