During the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for the dying, and buried those abandoned by relatives in her family cemetery.

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“I walked out and [the nurses] said, ‘You didn’t go in that room, did you?’” Burks recalled. “I said, ‘Well, yeah. He wants his mother.’ They said, ‘Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming. Nobody’s been here, and nobody’s coming.’”

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