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We Were Here

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We Were Here

Season 13 Episode 28 | 86m 47s | CC

When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving ways to support and care for one another and to fight for dignity and a cure.

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