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HIV/AIDS Support

Call Me Wesley

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6. I posted this before some way back. His name was Herbert Riedener.

Reply to William769 (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 02:58 PM

Dec 2011

I was around 12 years old. He was the accountant for my dad's business. Always a great guy with a cool bike he let me and my sister ride on it. Damn, he had his own little disco dance room in his apartment, and I loved to play with the controls. He was a friend of the whole family. Great guy, gentle and loving; best babysitter in the world.

Co-founder of the Swiss Aids Federation in 1985. He was one of the early ones to catch HIV. He didn't make it.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/por/index/Swiss_Aids_pioneer_reflects_on_progress.html?cid=4513058

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