This story was written in October 2019, before COVID-19 arrived and made sheltering in place necessary, further increasing isolation for a population already isolated.

It was written for the ACRIA Center for HIV & Aging at GMHC newsletter ACHIEVE. It took longer than expected to get the newsletter published it came out in May 2020. This edition is focused on HIV Long-Term Survivors and is worth a read. The PDF can be downloaded here: https://bit.ly/HLTSachieve