No apology needed. I was very impressed by your heart felt response to the author who is a truly special woman. We are truly blest to have her as part of our lives.

Sorry meant to reply to the post and not your comment in particular.

I seek out any reading material that involves those categories as well and particularly gravitate toward your posts because you’re out as both (though on maintainence), that’s rare to find. I certainly can’t be. On my (quite neglected) blog I don’t discuss prostitution bc I don’t want to “hear it” and if anyone puts together who I am, I don’t want the info passed along to family or current or potential clients. To most clients, if anything- I smoke weed because the automatic assumption for injecting heroin addict is AIDS. With Facebook I acknowledge neither since my family is on there, even though a number of them have distant awareness of past or current drug use that is not discussed. In my personal life, I know 2 girls I hang out with on occasion who do both- but one is higher priced with a gf who does the same, and tends to move away and get clean from time to time – so don’t see her much. The other is a street worker with an abusive bf and feel terrible for her. So it breaks down to not having much of anyone to relate to. And the best treatment I’ve gotten with being “out” as both is at the testing center, they give me more condoms, and a clinical trial facility that does Abscess studies with antibiotics, where they were very professional and kind. I’m too scared to admit it anywhere else because you’re seen as this vector for disease, not a person outside of these things you do. But it’s nice to know I’m not alone. As well as that life goes on & it is possible to survive this way long-term, bc I think you have a number of more years than I do, I’ve only been seeing people full time for 3 years (close to 2 years between semesters before that) and on heroin for 8. Never been on maintainence. And while I fully accept myself and my life and don’t feel bad about myself for either- not having much of friends “like me” and keeping up with the dope cycle gets tiring at times.