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Nurse Hanniman tells Ned that the protesters outside the hospital are growing more rowdy and the mounted police have been forced to use tear gas on them. Changing tack, she asks Ned why he doesn’t like her husband, despite the fact that he is working tirelessly to find an effective treatment against HIV. Ned tells her that he, and those like him, are campaigning against the “international genocide” that has taken place against the gay community.
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START: HANNIMAN: Not a morning person? Now we take some tests, I thought you would be out there directing your troops. There are twice as many. Thousands. Speeches. Firecrackers. Bullhorns. Rockets. Red glares. Colored smoke. It actually was very pretty. Lots of men dressed up like nurses.
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END: NED: Alexander Pope.
HANNIMAN: Not a gay poet.
NED: (Taking more pills) These are making me sick to my stomach.
HANNIMAN: Take an Alka-Seltzer.
Larry Kramer. The Destiny of Me. Plume, 1993. pp.45-48
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