this doctor lichter my report and recognize this kid is not going to be reunited with this y of origin. he f recommended as soon as possible someone should have recognized thisec earlier but someone recognize it was three years old and immediately put me in adoption system. incentives in a holding pattern going to different homes all the time. until someone finally took the time and carefullyan read my report. i have basically got lost in this bureaucratic system and it's happened to a lot of kids. look after your adopted this is the first time you had this real father figure in your life. could you describe what was different about that? throughout the book you make a lot of the fact that when you got to gayle the kids there come from two-parent families. for a few years of your life you had stable two-parent family. talk a little bit about the family and particular about the relationship you had with your father? >> i was adopted just before my eighth birthday. i remember being very, just full of joy. having a family. one isam still not final foster home my adoptive parents came to v

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professor lichter, thank you for joining us onso thank all againo gin with a vignette so in a 1993 interview with playboy magazine, the playwright, rights activist and aids coalition to unleash power act up co-founder larry krer expressed admiration for ryan white. the person most associate with aids is ryan white, the indiana boy who died of aids 1990. the interviewer, playboy, told kramer before asking where ryan on kramer's list aids leaders, heroes and villains. i think little ryan white probably did more to change the face of this illness and to move people than anyone. kramer replied, people respond to courage. ryan was courageous, confronting the issue and saying in your face, here i am, here aids is. i am the face of aids. but earlier that year in 1993, when kramer appeared on a panel with ryan's mother, jenny white, in hartford connecticut, he, quote, said words, the effect that he was sick and tired of hearing about ryan white. she later recalled larry kramer's divergent responses to ryan white story reflect the complexity and the significance of the young man's life and legacy. ho