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Woman discovers life after AIDS virus diagnosis

By April Corbin (contact)

Sunday, April 24, 2011 | 2 a.m.

After Theresa King learned she was HIV positive, she took her 15-year-old son to Palm Mortuary. It was 1995, and she assumed she wouldn’t live to see the new millennium. At 40, King knew nothing about HIV or AIDS except that they killed people — usually gay men — so it was time to pick out a casket, secure a grave site and get her will in order.

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