Chapter 2September 1988. The second time Mike died, and then came back to life, everyone else in his community was dying, so no one but a priest noticed the miracle. And even he didn’t speak about it.
AIDS was the obvious villain this time around, but so was Regan. So were the nurses and doctors who quit their posts, forgetting everything about the Hippocratic oath. So were others outside (and some inside) the community who lambasted him and his kind for their excessive ways. Yeah, sure, Larry Kramer had also been right as well. Some of Mike’s friends were hedonists who f****d anything that moved and treated the diseases they got before AIDs as nothing more than the common cold—but that was not their fault. Not entirely. Centuries of silence and decades of homophobia had turned a generati
