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The Destiny of Me

What do you do when you’re dying from a...

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
The National Institutes of Health, 1992
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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What do you do when you’re dying from a disease you need not be dying from? What do you do when the only system set up to save you is a pile of sh#t run by idiots and quacks? What do you do when your own people won’t unite and fight together to save their own lives?
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And the mystery isn’t why they don’t know anything, it’s why they don’t want to know anything. So what does all this say about the usefulness of…anything? Yes, the war is lost. And I’d give anything to get angry again.

Larry Kramer. The Destiny of Me. Plume, 1993. pp.17-18.

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