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(KSL News) If you watched "Dateline NBC" tonight, you saw the compelling story of a young man from Utah.
It was called "The Miraculous Life of Jonathon Swain."
Jonathon was born prematurely in 1983, and contracted AIDS from a tainted blood transfusion. His mother told him he would die, even prepared an obituary.
But Jonathon survived. Now 23, and living in Vernal, he's a poster boy for surviving the disease that has killed so many.
NBC Reporter: "You're supposed to be dead."
Jonathon Swain/ AIDS Survivor: "Yeah, crazy I guess. Ever since I was a kid, everyone told me I was going to die. I knew inside, I just always knew deep down inside. I had faith at three years old that I would be alive."
Now Jonathon is married, and he and his wife, Amber, have their own baby boy, who turns two this month.
