Butterfly Weed: A NovelIt's quite a story, by turns raucous and poignant: how Doc Swain becomes a physician without benefit of medical school education, achieving celebrity for his ability to heal patients through the "dream cure", how he winds up a high school teacher of hygiene, how he grows enamored of a pretty student named Tenny at the same time that he is being pursued by the insatiable music teacher Venda Breedlove (who slips him a love potion and makes him her sex slave for a day), and how his love for Tenny ultimately leads him to face some heartbreaking choices. |
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