title: Cry Bloody Murder:: A Tale of Tainted Blood
author: Elaine Deprince
description: If you are not made of wood, tears will stain most every page of your copy of this book. Elaine DePrince is a housewife and mother of five, two of whom died of AIDS when they were young boys. They were hemophiliacs who were exposed to HIV via their use of contaminated blood-clotting products. This is the story of their brief lives and of their mother's fight against a health care cum legal system that allows pharmaceutical companies to rush their blood products to market without fear of product liability lawsuits, a system that made their unnecessary deaths possible. What makes the story all the more affecting is that the two boys were very bright and well aware of the whole awfulness of their tragedy. Just try reading the eleven-year-old Cubby DePrince's "64 Reasons Why You Do Not Want to Get AIDS" (Reason #64: "You wonder if people will still remember you after you are dead.") while holding to the belief that the FDA and the state legislatures and the blood banks and the drug companies are doing a good job.
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  # BLOODY  
  ROYAL  
  PRINTS
  
  
  ## REBA WHITE WILLIAMS
  
  
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  Dedication
  
  
  _Bloody Royal Prints_ is dedicated to Dave: Without his patient assistance, it
  never would have been completed.
  
  
  # Bloody:
  
  
  
  
  
  * _Adjective_ Resembling or pertaining to blood
  
  
  * _Adjective_ Covered, smeared, or stained with blood
  
  
  * _Adverb_ Unpleasant, deplorable, perverse
  
  
  * _Adverb_ Damnable, cursed (considered profane or obscene)
  
  
  * _Verb_ Make bloody: stain with blood
  
  
  
  
  
  # PROLOGUE  
  Dinah
  
  
  April, New York
  
  
  Dinah was certain Jonathan would forbid her to accept the Samuel Palmer
  Fellowship in London. She was determined to stand up to him. She must. It was
  a great honor, and it would be a great adventure. She couldn’t let it go.
  
  
  She chose her moment carefully, on a Saturday afternoon. They had enjoyed a
  delicious lunch at Orso, where they broke all their diet rules and stuffed
  themselves with pizza bread and roast pork. Jonathan had followed lunch with a
  nap, and af