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Dr. Ass wrote a prescription: one golden retriever, three friends who lie to you kindly, and no mirrors for six months.

“What are you—HEY!”

“No,” he said. “You’re just lonely. You’re not a curse. You’re a symptom. The curse is whatever made you believe you had to be one.” cherokee dr ass

Cross didn’t yelp. He didn’t confess. He shattered —like a mirror falling off a wall. Shards of black suit and bone-white fragments clattered to the floor. And from the pile rose a thin, reedy voice: “I’m… the curse.”

He taped the shards back together with duct tape and a prayer his grandmother taught him. By sunrise, Mr. Cross was whole again. He didn’t have a curse. He had a tumor in his amygdala the size of a peanut—and a terrible, lonely childhood. “You’re just lonely

Crutcher doubled over, gagged, and vomited a single, intact, rusted finishing nail onto the linoleum floor. He’d swallowed it in ‘04 roofing his barn. It had been lodged in his pyloric sphincter, slowly leaching iron into his saliva.

“YOWCH! My gallbladder, you son of a—” a Dr. Ass patient would reply. The curse is whatever made you believe you had to be one

Dr. Ass listened. Then he walked around behind Crutcher’s chair.