Good evening, and welcome to Nighty Night with Robbie a Childry.

Bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm DJ Lubel, the shows producer.

Tonight's tale is about a sickness so nasty and contagious.

Nobody is safe.

Please enjoy Paddebick.

Have you ever had a disturbing urge?

Something that you just knew would be the end of you?

Of course you have.

Everyone has had the feeling of being in a high place with the urge to jump.

How simple and easy to end it all in an instant.

But few ever do because that feeling is only ever a possibility and a possibility by itself is harmless.

But what if the feeling that started as a possibility suddenly became something more?

What if it evolved into a need?

Something deep and burning inside that then morphed into an obsession?

Crazy had an obsession.

She just didn't know it yet.

It was only a feeling, not even a urge, not even a need, not yet.

It began with her sitting on her back porch, enjoying her coffee on a Sunday morning and opening up her phone simply to pass the time.

For a moment she thought about reading a book but she was too distracted.

She thought about simply gazing into her backyard but for some reason she didn't think she'd be able to sit for that long with nothing but quiet to occupy her mind.

So she took out her phone and she scrolled and she read and an idea latched onto her brain.

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