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In late 2000, after returning from a trip abroad to the United States, Johnson began feeling unwell. Soon after
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in 1989. He never knew his father. Nkosi was HIV-positive from birth, and was legally
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to Nkosi. The book also features a poem entitled "The Spirit of Nkosi
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