Originally posted by Lucie on Konbini (in French) and translated to English and posted on A Plus:

Your 20s is a time for staying out late, waking up early, working hard but living carefree. Lucie's life isn't like that. Not anymore, at least.

Today, Lucie is just 22 years old. Back in 2012, while running routine blood tests for an operation, Lucie found out she was HIV-positive. And then everything changed.

This is Lucie's open letter to every each of us who thinks we're untouchable. ...

I had had unprotected sex a few months before the report and I had an idea of what the origin of my contamination might be, even though I did not really understand.

After all, this guy was clean, he had not been with a lot of partners. The second suspect, I had given him a blowjob but surely that can't be enough, though?" The virus is present in pre-seminal liquid" the nurse tells me. Ah. I was informed on the subject, and the basics, but like everyone else, I hadn't known that.

...

“I took the risk of exposing myself to HIV and other STIs”

I have not had any luck. I did not have bad luck. I had unprotected sex with boys who said they were clean and I believed them at their word. I took the risk of exposing myself to HIV and others to STIs.