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Considered the greatest of polychrests-from the Greek, poly- as in "many," -chrestos as in "useful," meaning useful for many purposes, the way my father's death explains so much of my life, from sad sex to maxed credit cards-because many of its symptoms correspond with those of the most common diseases. I'm not the only daughter who has betrayed her father, which absolves little, if anything at all. It is often the first remedy administered in a homeopathic program, indicated after excesses, therapeutic and otherwise-he got his first tattoo at sixtytwo: dots on his chest marking crosshairs for the radiation beam-establishing an equilibrium of forces and counteracting chronic effects. The chemo tube hung like a sippy straw to his heart. It is the pre-eminent remedy for conditions resulting from the stresses of modern life. The treatments gave him hepatitis C, turning him into a victim of perpetual bad lighting, his skin and sclera the color of canned peaches.
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