A friend of Burks’, Paul Wineland was the partner of one of the several
AIDS patients. "You were the only person that we could call,"
Wineland says. "There wasn't a doctor. There wasn't a nurse. There wasn't
anyone. It was just you. You loved them more than their families could. You
loved them more than their church could. Now it almost looks like looking back
into another world." "It really does," Burks says.
"It was such a horrible time. But we're still standing."
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Another friend of Burks’, Jim Harwood was the father of his son Raymond who also had AIDS. Burks says that Harwood was one of the three people she worked with who stood by their diseased child out of over one thousand parents. Harwood says that he was really surprised when he heard that people had abandoned their children because their children were diognised with AIDS.
Jim says that Burks was a very caring and one of the kindest and sweetest people he's ever known.
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