Strength has a Million Faces

The story

"Women with HIV are burdened vessels who are courageous, powerful, strong, empathetic, and protectors of our families, but most importantly, women with HIV are worthy. I often think back to a day in the summer of 2001, 5 years after my diagnosis, when I watched the tall ships pass down the Detroit River. I think about what I have lost since and also what I have gained from my journey. I ponder the skills, craftsmanship, teamwork, endurance and courage required to build and sail those vessels in sometimes perilous seas. I am one of those tall ships; tenderly refit by the 'conquering heroes, the leaders and the best' at the University of Michigan who helped me to understand and appreciate that strength has a million faces, and one of them just might be mine." ID: ST-MIZ-M&-0104