I met Susan in a Massai village almost at the end of my time in Tz.
A girl of 13, she was already an orphan, like so many kids we met there and was living with an aunt and another cousin who had also been orphaned by AIDS.
Sandi, my partner and I, were running the clinic when Susan walked in, shy and barely speaking till she warmed up to us.
She told us how she suffered with diarrhea, then unexpectedly, she revealed that she would one day like to be a pilot.
I looked at this young girl, with dreams too big to be contained in a village unknown with a disease that would one day claim her life as it had her parents and hoped that we would find a cure to make her dreams come true.
I often wonder are her studies going well to be able to one day become a pilot, and is she doing well?
Its funny the lives that touch you in unexpected ways.