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 https://www.audible.com/pd/Going-Numb-Audiobook/B09WN6TXBF?qid=1698625655&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=YARHWKZTM1JVA69P2QJP&pageLoadId=eU1EmrLCiDzGguyg&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> “Why do you do this?”
“I want to go numb.” She told me.
For twenty years my wife battled an addiction to pain killers. Opiates separated her need for a husband, for a family and for God, slowly replacing them with the need to go numb. This is her story. And mine. It was time to write her story. 

 At length, the Storyteller finally spoke, "There is a story or two, (perhaps many more) inside each of us. To awaken these stories, to breathe life into them, to have them rise above the confines of one’s mind, requires little more than imagination. 

 “When we see London, we will stroll along the River Thames and dance beneath a new moon to music only we can hear. Romance will envy what we have. It will be a red dress night, Abbey, like you always dreamed of…”But her dream would never come. 

 As the Spanish Flu pandemic promenades through the streets of East Boston, quarantined inside the brownstone tenement, Jimmy Quinn, eyes pressed against the keyhole of a forgotten door, watches her. The mysterious girl dances silently.

  "Why are you doing this?" I asked her. "I want to go numb," Addison replied. For 20 years, my wife battled an addiction to prescribed pain killers.

Opiates disuniting her from a husband, from a family and from God. Slowly, her need to go numb replacing all else. This is her story. And mine.