Unless you are biting each others tongues and bleeding on each other, then no, you will most likely not get AIDS through kissing. AIDS is not strong enough in saliva to be transmitted.
Certainly you did not catch HIV despite your close contact with the performer. Possible but unlikely.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.