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How a Son Survived Being Injected with HIV by His Father

By Justin Heckert · GQ · April 2016
How a Son Survived Being Injected with HIV by His Father
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"Twenty-four years ago a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But the most astonishing part of all is the life the son turned out to live."

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