"The Impact of Revealing a Long-Held Family Secret"

The author recounts her family's struggle with keeping her father's HIV diagnosis a secret in the 1980s, the stigma and fear surrounding the disease, and the impact it had on their lives. After years of silence, her parents wrote a book about their experience, breaking free from the secrecy and finding support. The author shares her journey of processing and finding meaning in her family's experience, and how she now speaks openly about it to help others put down their unspoken burdens.