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The Provincetown AIDS Memorial is a monument dedicated as a "reminder of the lives lost to AIDS and the humanitarian achievements of the caregivers who responded to the crisis. It is also a reminder of those who are still fighting to live and the continuing impact of AIDS in communities worldwide."

Description
Located in Provincetown, Massachusetts on the Town Hall's east lawn, the Provincetown AIDS Memorial is a horizontal stone monument depicting the ever-changing waves in the ocean, captured at a unique moment in time.

The monument was fashioned from two blocks of carbon grey quartzite, a hard stone from Brazil that was chosen to withstand the harshness of the environment on Cape Cod. Weighing 17 ST and configured in a horizontal square measuring 9 by, the memorial was dedicated on June 16, 2018.

Two opposing sides of the memorial are inscribed with a single word: "Remembering."

A third side contains the following dedication:

The final side of the monument contains several poem fragments written by local poets, combined into a single block of verse: