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Hello.
I am Latina,
Guatemalan.
And what I want
to share with you
is an experience
that is not mine,
about HIV /AIDS,
which yes,
was caused by risks
that a young girl took.
I remember when I was
maybe 12 or 13 years old,
I had a cousin who was
engaged in prostitution.
She worked at a "night club."
And
well, as I spent my time working,
she told me once,
"Look, cousin, why do
you sacrifice yourself so much?
I work in a place where I earn
money very easily, you see?
And I don't break my back like you.
Don't you want to join?"
And I worked in an Igloo.
And
she was called "La Colorina."
My cousin was very pretty,
and said to me, "Don't you want to come?"
She invited me.
I said "No,"
since I was a girl of 13 or 14, right?
She told me, "Don't be embarrassed,
there you will make money very easily."
"I have my things, look,
and I do not need to break my back that much."
But no, I did not listen to her.
And we played together,
because she was pretty young.
And I dedicated myself to improving, working,
and studying.
Over the years,
when she was 33 years old
she began to get sick.
She became very thin,
no longer went out.
Her life was over.
And then, passed away.
And now when I think about
the way she died,
had suffered, suffered,
my cousin suffered for that,
I wonder what if in
that moment
I would have listened to her
as an ignorant, innocent
young woman.
If I had listened to my cousin,
my fate would have been the same.
I would have been sick,
dead from a disordered life, would I not?
Although one is not free
from danger because
with your husband, you can be exposed.
No offense to men, but
they live very sexually untidy lives
and sometimes they don't use protection.
I think it is because
in a moment of pleasure, perhaps they do not think.
And a wife at home
can get HIV/AIDS
without knowing it
because of her husbands' unfaithfulness.
But it's good to be careful
and talk, communicate
with your partner.
And I share this story of my
childhood
because I would not be here
telling you this,
perhaps, if I had listened to my cousin,
and would have had the same fate as she.
And that's what I wanted to share.
So everyone, take care of yourselves
because it is something that
can happen,
contracting that deadly disease.
Thank you very much.