Unless you're in a Mexican gang, you don't usually tattoo your own name on your body. Typically you tattoo your lover's name.
My guess on how he contracted HIV isn't through intravenous drug use.
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I'd rather be ignorant than stupid. Ignorance implies a lack of knowledge which is easily correctable through education. Stupidity implies an inability to learn. Therefore; ignorance is temporary, stupidity is forever!