'I am, if not addicted to words, at the very least word-dependent. One contributory factor to this word-dependence is the fact that I was a very sickly child. '

I am, if not addicted to words, at the very least word-dependent. At least one contributory factor to this word-dependence is the fact that I was a very sickly child. Infantile asthma kept me home and abed roughly three days out of seven.