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Walnut Creek Family Looks Back On Deadly Toll Of AIDS; 'We Are Told To Love'
At 82 years old, Carol Lynn Pearson remembers her late husband, his coming out and his coming home to die.
Carol Lynn Pearson lost her husband in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
It was in the 1980's, before Rock Hudson's news-making AIDS diagnosis, when the illness was taking a deadly toll in the Bay Area and across the country.
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The Peterson story grabbed headlines — "Wife brings gay husband home to die of AIDS" — and put a human face on the struggle being endured by so many.
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