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A Hard Silence — An AIDS Story with Melanie Brooks
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Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories, reads from her memoir manuscript, A Hard Silence, which shares her perspective on what it was like to grow up living with the deep secret that her father contracted AIDS in 1985 from a tainted blood transfusion.
Order a copy of Melanie's book, Writing Hard Stories online at Bookshop.org
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Also mentioned in this episode revelations by Mary Gauthier which you can read about in her book Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting.
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