The GiveAway for "Thomas Hard Was an Optimist" ends on December 1, 2023, in remembrance of World AIDS Day and the incredible loss of life during the then pandemic that has since become an ongoing endemic.
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To everyone who, like me, lost close friends to this devastating disease, I share your pain. I, too, lost many of those dearest to me.