I was having dinner with a very good friend of many years at a restaurant in downtown Denver and out of the blue these two young pretty teenage girls came to our table:

“Are you guys gay?”

Confused I said, “Yes.”

Then smiling and laughing one of them said, “I hope you both die of AIDS.”

Then they walked off still laughing.

The tables next to us got silent.

My friend just looked at me and said, “Well that just happened.”

That was in 1989. My friend did in fact have HIV and he would be dead within a couple of years.

So, this week probably feels very bad for a lot of people, but we’ve been here before.

Just dust yourself off and keep going.