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December 28, 2022 - January 23, 2023
What irked me was that I had harbored in my body a variation— Borrelia burgdorferi—of the same egregious spirochetal bacteria that syphilis patients used to have (Treponema pallidum), yet I was out innocuously hiking in the New England woods, not drinking green pools of absinthe cocktails and being promiscuous like some of my favorite nineteenth-century French poets, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. I
Someone does not have to be doing something wrong to gt syphilis. This is you having a weird judgement
Dad called the juice bar, and I could hear him frantically asking, “What did you give my daughter?” He discovered that the large lemon, coconut oil, honey, and hot water herbal concoction I had sipped all the way home was full of CBD oil. It wasn’t marked, and I would never have consumed oil of marijuana of my own accord, and here I had just come out of a ten-day dry fast. My body was as pure as it gets.