Back then? Yeah. I have—had, I guess, food sensitivities and allergies that I developed as I got older that now the portal made me immune to, but when I was a kid? I didn't need any of it. She made it up. I don't have asthma and I never did, but I sure thought I did because she was so damn insistent with the doctors that I think they just gave her placebo prescriptions to shut her up and get her out of their offices. I had medicine for goddamned everything back then. I took every vitamin under the sun. I still take a lot of those, actually, by force of habit.

[ Eddie takes a deep breath and lets it out again slowly, nodding. ]

Yeah, it was. What was worse was forgetting that about her when I moved away...

[ And then marrying someone exactly like her and perpetuating the cycle. ]

And then figuring it out again later when I went back. Fucking Derry, man...