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EDITORIAL FINANCE: Daniel M. Rubin (Manager); Genevieve Christy, Peter Mitchel (Deputies); Patricia Hermes, Camille Sanabria, Linda D. Vartoogian; Wayne Chun, Sheila Greene, Carl Harmon, Edward Osei- Bonsu, Tina Pabarue, Katherine Young...
School's out, and the first grade exits for the day in double file, with six- year-old Tina somewhere in the middle. Slack-armed, she drifts sideways toward her foster mother across the rushing current of her classmates. Her eyes are scrunched up woefully in the universal expression of a sick child seeking consolation from a parent. Her ear aches, she reports. Also, her feet hurt...
...That child is getting fat as a butterball," Bonnie had declared happily ; that very morning at a meeting of other families whose foster children carry HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Tina's doctors have lately totted up her symptoms and moved her into the category called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going...
...today, Bonnie prescribes a Nutty Buddy ice cream cone on the walk home, then a few drops of Sweet Oil for the affected ear. She makes an appointment at the clinic for the morning. Then she sets Tina up with a thermometer in her mouth and her homework in front of her. "Come on now," she says, urging a pencil on the child. "You're not that sick...
...other foster parents look to Denise, who is the sickest child, and Tina, who is the oldest, and see possible futures for their children. A troubling prospect, either way, and this is the remarkable thing: they risk loving other people's children in the foreknowledge that they may see them...