Nancy Ramos had been HIV positive for 15 years when I went to photograph her in 2007. The recovered alcoholic is a mother of two; both her children are HIV negative. She lives in Whittier, California with her son, Ray.

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"That’s why I get up every morning to breathe- there’s something I have to do. I don’t wake up every day and think- don’t drink. In the same way I have AIDS, I don’t think about it every day. I want to be able to breathe freely."