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Sacred Haven of Debauchery

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I had all the signs of liver disease (there could be no mistake about it), including the main symptom: "apathy and an irresistible aversion to all kinds of work."
How this ailment tormented me is impossible to describe. I suffered from it since infancy. From the moment I went to school, the disease did not leave me for almost a single day. My loved ones did not know then that I had a sick liver. Now medicine has made great strides, but then all this was attributed to laziness.
"How? Are you still lying in bed, you lazy devil! Get up and get to work!" they would say, not realizing, of course, that it was all due to my liver.
And they didn't give me pills – they gave me slaps on the back of the head. And, surprisingly, slaps on the back of the head often cured me, at least for a while. Indeed, one slap from that time had a stronger effect on my liver and contributed more to accelerating movements and the immediate performance of all the tasks that needed to be done than an entire box of pills does now.
You see, simple home remedies are often more effective than all sorts of expensive medicines.
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