Name: Michael
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: Raising a HIV-positive son in the U.S. from a scared boy to ambitious young man: Michael re-lives a common scenario of having to raise a sibling's child because of AIDS. "There's still so much to be learned. If we learn together, the outcome is so much more powerful." - Michael

Michael

from Mau a Malawi: Stories of AIDS by Peter Mawanga & Andrew Finn Magill

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Raising a HIV-positive son in the U.S. from a scared boy to ambitious young man: Michael re-lives a common scenario of having to raise a sibling's child because of AIDS. "There's still so much to be learned. If we learn together, the outcome is so much more powerful." - Michael

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I just want to ask a favor from you,
could you watch my son when I pass on?
What do you mean? I said, "you look fine."
She looked into my eyes and said,
"I won't live long."

First week of August her husband died,
then a son, and then soon she
Fall of 99' it really hit home,
I lost my sister but met my son

The doctor said my son as positive,
"what am I going to do?" it just hit me
We flew back to America, me and my six-year-old son,
six years old

Searching the articles, I stayed up reading
Many years passed and he grew up faster each day
"Dad I just can't live this way...
waiting for cures"

Took him to school and I met his teachers
"No, please not AIDS," they said, they just didn't know
And how would they know
If I didn't tell them?

Chemistry, Physics, physics and football
He wants to be an aerospace engineer

Seventeen, he's my inspiration
Seventeen, he's my inspiration

I know that God made a sacrifice
One family lost. One family given that day.

credits

from Mau a Malawi: Stories of AIDS, released October 12, 2011
Ellis Paul: vocals
Andrew Finn Magill: steel-string guitar
Peter Mawanga: nylon-string guiar
Mavuto Miliyomi: marimbas

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Andrew Finn Magill Asheville, North Carolina

For twenty years violinist/fiddler and composer Andrew Finn Magill has been pursuing parallel careers in traditional Irish music, Brazilian choro, jazz and American fiddle and he has performed with everyone from grammy-nominees Trio Brasileiro to Rising Appalachia. ... more