was entirely fatal that people would run away from you that the pic, the person, the pictures, jesse solomon, he was my partner. he died in october of $991.00 and you know, the 1st night just him i got together. i have to tell this guy that i may be positive. and so i brought him to a corner on new york like 4th avenue and 6, and told them guess they had to tell you something. i said yes. see i have h i v and he's like is that it goes been said nothing. i have aids and he said i said you do. and he said, well, what do you think the spots are on my face? there they were carpet or coma. and, you know, i thought i just thought you had, i had complexion. i didn't realize that's what it was, but you know, over the course just because it's about 2 years and he taught me so much about life to think in terms of possibility. i remember thinking that if i loved him enough, he wouldn't die. and then i remembered that and then i realized that if i really loved him, i had to let him go. and so he died in my arms around 7 am on october 6th, 1991. and to this day he is the love of my life. i tried to do my

market helping to take care of the injured, but i'd like to highlight the unionist couple in town jesse and solomon rupert and they were known for their union sympathies. not particularly. well liked by their southern supporting neighbors the rupert's realize that many unions soldiers have been left behind as the union army retreats in defeat from the battle of new market and they go out with a wagon and start bringing in union wounded. they're placing them in a church in their own home and the school that they operated and looking for places to shelter these guys to get them out of the storm and there's a story that one of the rupert's neighbors owned a large warehouse and jesse rupert wanted him to open up the warehouse so that they could get more soldiers out of the rain and he steadfastly. because they were enemy soldiers and he didn't want to help enemy soldiers and this may jesse very upset and she actually goes and she sees a confederate unit moving through town and she goes and she stands in the middle of the muddy street and she appeals to this confederate officer tells him the situation w