AIDS Memoir Pulled from Library

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AIDS Memoir Pulled from Library
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          Feb 22, 2011
          
        
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A memoir was pulled from the general circulation of a middle school library in Tennessee because of the author's accounts of promiscuity, the AIDS-related death of his lover and his use of profane language.

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