2: Poet and novelist PAUL MONETTE. He died of complications from the AIDS virus on Friday, at age 49. His 1988 book "Borrowed Time: An Aids Memoir," was the first such memoir to be published about AIDS, and won a National Book Award. In it, MONETTE told the story of his "beloved" friend and lover's two year struggle with AIDS. The book was called "a gallant, courageous love story." In 1992, MONETTE wrote a memoir about his own life before he came out of the closet at the age of 25, "Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story," (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). (REBROADCAST FROM 7
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