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«Dear editorial staff: I write to you in hope in this way to save someone's
life. I am asking to publish my letter. I really need it to be
read by seniors, especially
those who are in power to change
something in this world. It also addressed to the youth. I wish them not to repeat someone's else
mistakes.
I'm 18 years old. My name is Olga. I have HIV for two years... I want to ask all adults, especially those who have power: why did you, adults "throw under the tank" us, your children? Why did you confuse us with sex, pornography,
drugs? You are
guilty in our deaths! You preach "free relationship," poster artists who are homosexuals. You
convince us that everybody lives like that! And we are dying now! We are never going to experience love, never have
family, kids...We are still alive but we are already gone. We were deprived of
childhood, it was taken away by anger, hopelessness, fear, jealousy, powerless. And you have lived to be 60,70 and even more, and we are going to die
being young! Why? What for?
{mosimage}Why haven't you taught us understand such words as "love," "shame", "morality'',
''virginity"? Four of my friends, yesterday's school kids, have already died.
We are already burring each other! What for did
you tie
us to "safe sex'? We would better plough the soil, drive tractors than dying from HIV. You put a lot of afford to spoil us
broadcasting through all mass media about
"it" and "modern'' way of life. You taught us at school, with the open eyes how
to do "it" civilized, persuaded "to relax," to throw aside "untrue shame, ''produced movies, brochures and nobody would judge you for that. You haven't killed nobody with your own hands. Such violators now are being praised, elected
to power. And you still continue to do it with younger kids, younger
than us. Shall you stop it!
You can't imagine my gratitude to
those who could pull the cigarette out of my mouth and spanked me with
stinging-nettle, when I still could be saved from
"under the tank''!
Help to stop madness. We have to introduce censorship to all mass media, to
prohibit different shows that promote pornography, alcohol, and cigarette advertising. And you, who will read
this letter, forward it to someone else.
Maybe it will
help, because we all are dying. And you too!
Olga,
Ust'-Izhora village,
translated by
Natalia Lucus
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