The Julie Project - moving story of a mother, drug addict and AIDS
sufferer
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I first met Julie on February 28, 1993. Julie, 18, stood in the lobby of
the Ambassador Hotel, barefoot, pants unzipped, and an 8 day-old infant
in her arms. She lived in San Francisco’s SRO district, a neighborhood
of soup kitchens and cheap rooms. Her room was piled with clothes,
overfull ashtrays and trash. She lived with Jack, father of her first
baby Rachael, and who had given her AIDS. She left him months later to
stop using drugs.