“I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive …”

— Kathy Acker

The Gift of Disease (1996)

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American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet 1947–1997

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