"When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture."

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I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

— Harold Brodkey