Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Sylvia and I started dating in the summer of 1975. She was a school teacher. It seemed to me that the school session from Labor Day until Thanksgiving was just too long. I persuaded her to take a long weekend in the middle of October. I made a reservation at the Little River Inn for three nights for the third weekend in October. (I do not recall how I selected Little River Inn). We arrived very late Friday night, as we drove from Willits to Fort Bragg rather than from Cloverdale... Read More