Sam and Rod: How it all began

This is the story of Sam and Rod. I want to update all of you as to what as happened recently. As you may know, Samantha, my long-time partner, my lover and friend, died on the third of October after and illness. Her actual cause of death was severe pulmonary tuberculosis. However this was really a complication of HIV, in which her immune system had been compromised. It was what is commonly known as AIDS. I was under no illusions. Sam had in fact told me that she was HIV positive in 2017. I was in the airport at Paris Charles de Gaulle with my baggage checked, when she texted me to say she ad just had a test and this was the result. She said that the cause was receiving a tattoo with an unsterilised needle. By this stage we had known each other for nearly a year. For the previous seven months we had carried on a relationship online. This is no substitute for a face to face relationship but I had strong feelings for her despite that. I had thirty hours, more or less, incl