Freep - MITCH ALBOM: Mitch flashback: Magic Johnson begins fight with HIV

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There will never be a sadder story than this, and if there is, I want no part of it. Like most Americans, I began to shiver Thursday just after 6 p.m., when Earvin Johnson stepped to a microphone in Los Angeles. I am shivering even as I write this. The world, it seems, has become a terribly cold place.

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