Rent Question. *Spoilers*

I recently saw Rent for the first time and am having a plot debate with my sister. Here is the question: *SPOILERS* Does Mimi know that Roger has Aids? Does she know through mutual friends? Cause it seems like she wouldn't be coming on to him if she knew she would give him a life-threatening disease. Roger pushes her away for that reason.

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I think she finds out right at the end of La Vie Boheme. When her beeper goes off and she says "AZT break" and Roger says "You?" and basically he never says to her that he has AIDS as well, but at that point they both know that the other has AIDS.

oops broadwayguy beat me to it.

It was sarcasm......I ain't dumb or anythin'

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LOL

in person too!

I've read enough of this board to know you gotta type *Spoilers* for anything or get chewed out and ran out of town on a rail. I understand Mimi has Aids, but Roger doesn't know she has aids. It's clear that Roger found out that she has aids there at the end of La Vie Boheme. But, It seems to me like she is trying to get him to understand without wanting to directly tell him. Like, she sings the song "no day but today" that they sing in the Life Support meeting, it's like she is trying to tell him, "Wake up, I understand what you are going through, and I'm right here." When she responds, "Me" at the end of La Vie Boheme, it almost sounds like she is saying it like, "I didn't want to tell you like this, but you wouldn't listen."

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That's why they both keep singing "I should tell you..." neither wants to admit to it. Then you know they go off to have some lovin' after La Vie Boheme cause they know they're both infected.

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Benny more than likely doesn't know. He probably dated Mimi before she got Aids.

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Benny gets back with her cause he likes her, thinks she's hot etc. (he's still marrieD) but they never say that he has AIDS nor is it really assumed. Some of the plot has holes b/c J.Larson died before it opened.

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AND, they only broke up three months before Mimi started dating Roger. The chance that she contracted AIDS in those three months and *knows* about it is kind of small, isn't it? I could be way off, but doesn't it take longer than that? If yes, then she probably did have it when she was dating Benny. Maybe neither of them knew, but she probably did have it.

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You're probably right. I was always confused because it's never actually stated. Thanks.

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Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it possible to have be HIV+ and not tranmit it to others? If that's true, is it the same with AIDS?