the backstory - the pivotal moment

so you may be wondering why we are doing this. well i can speak for myself. about 20 years ago when i was a young, swinging, and carefree young man living in the city i heard a radio report on AIDS. the reporter said something along the lines that in NYC, by the year 2000 there'd be 25,000 kids who had lost both parents to AIDS.

I don't know how to explain it other than to say at that instant, I woke up to something. it was the realization that at some point I would be a parent to a child whose parents were not able or around to take care of them.