After a three-year struggle against AIDS and its social stigmas, David Kirby could fight no longer. As his father, sister and niece stood by in anguish, the 32-year-old founder and leader of the Stafford, Ohio AIDS Foundation felt his life slipping away. David whispered, "I'm ready," took a last labored breath, then succumbed.

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Life magazine, November, 1990.