Special Report: Generations of AIDS

Columbia resident, Sam Givens, 61 who is HIV positive straightens blue flowers on the grave of his ex-lover, John Kenneth Brunson, who died of AIDS in 1988. Givens was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, the same year Brunson died.Givens said that Brunson's favorite color was blue and that blue carnations had been sprayed on his casket.

- C. Aluka Berry/caberry@thestate.com /The State