About this Book: |
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This little book presents the quest of a mother who is also a professional social worker and a student of family systems to use her hard-won knowledge to relate more authentically to her gay son in the early days of what became the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The book presents this mother-son relationship as recorded at the time in her personal journals as well as letters exchanged between them over a ten-year period. It addresses issues of family, homosexuality, religion, human connectedness, love, disease, death and gratitude for life as it is.
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About the Author: |
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Irene Morin is a retired social worker who lives close to family and grandchildren while writing her memoirs. She is one of the generation of women who married young, had several children, and when all were in elementary school, pursued her dream of education. She had a thirty-year careeer in the field of mental health both as a clinician and as a program administrator.
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