With 30 years of HIV behind us, we have brought about many changes. Some are very positive; medical breakthroughs have added years to peoples' lives. There has also been 30 years of strife, stigma and isolation for people with HIV. Through prose and poetry, the author opens her heart to the reader to reveal the struggles of life with HIV in those early years. She soothingly relates the reconciliation with herself and a society that increases its understanding and compassion so that the same achievements occur in the social field as it has in the medical field.