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"The Compulsory Donation Act was begun in 1964. We were promised peace and so we opened our blood out for our land and for our 'neighbors' who couldn't palate anything else. We gave and gave and gave. What did we get in return? An AIDS epidemic from filthy, contaminated donation-centers. And another girl taken every other day." 

---Tork, Abullah Shabbir, ed. "We're Sewing Our Veins Shut." Editorial. Bloodistan Gazette 13 July 2007: n. pag. Print.