It is a beautiful story of a mother who refused to let those dying from AIDS in the 1980s in Arkansas be alone.
“Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?” says Ruth Coker Burks.
Burks pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him, and held his hand. She bathed his face with a cloth and told him she was there. “I stayed with him for 13 hours while he took his last breaths on Earth,” she said.
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