“Thank god somebody invented the remote control,” thought Margaret, 60, sitting at home in 1987. It was a big black remote kept in a plastic cover with fake fur on the underside. Andrew, the youngest of her five kids, had given it to her the Christmas before last. Her other kids had laughed when she unwrapped the silly furry present. So had her two sisters, but Margaret thought it very practical. “This blessing is worth protecting,” she said to herself, aloud, after switching off the ad, yet again.
“A woman can’t watch Sale Of A Century in peace anymore, damn it,” she said. Margaret rarely cursed. She felt attacked, as though the Grim Reaper was coming for her. Margaret’s eldest son was HIV positive. The image of Death claiming children and grandmas with bowling balls was too much. She’d wept the first time she saw the ad, now she refused to let it into her home.
“It made me feel as though my son was contaminated and dirty,” says Margaret, twenty years later. “He’s still alive, though,” she says. “He takes medication and looks after himself. He looks after me too. He hasn’t been knocked over yet.”
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