One Tap for Yes: Love and Survival in the Early AIDS Epidemic

When Bill wakes in a hospital bed, the world is gone.

He cannot see. He cannot hear. What began as a headache has become a devastating illness linked to AIDS in the early years of the epidemic.

Trapped inside silence and darkness, Bill believes he has been kidnapped. The only way to reach him is through his palm. Letter by letter, his partner begins tracing words into his hand, rebuilding a life one touch at a time.

One Tap for Yes is a memoir of love, illness, and survival during the early AIDS epidemic. From hospital rooms to a small house in the Alabama pines, it tells the story of two men learning how to live through fear, blindness, and loss with patience, endurance, and devotion.