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I kept thinking, ridiculously, that the closer I got to her past, the greater the chance I’d have of stealing a moment out of ti past each other on a city street She was everywhere and nowhere
And as police reports eed that both Lincoln and Zach were in lower Manhattan that night, and that neither of them had an alibi that would clear their presence at or near the tirew more curious, even suspicious Both proved difficult to reach Neither wanted to talk
What did they have to hide?
This question became my central mystery to solve
Afterthousands of hours of the voices that knew Addison best, this biography pulls back the curtain to reveal the truth as I see it The acknowledgin to do justice to the generous co those ished to rerateful to the contributions of photographs and memorabilia, the visuals of Addison’s world that allowed us such vital intimacy
To her family, friends, fans, or the reader who is new to all that was Addison, I hope you find her here
Adele Griffin
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HOME AGAIN
JONAH LENOX: I guess you could call me Addison’s first We dated e both lived in Peacedale, but I moved to Boulder, Colorado, the same summer that Addison moved to New York She loved that city, the city that killed her When they brought Addison’s body back from New York to bury her in Rhode Island, I could al: “Lenox, can you believe it? Just when I thought I got out, they dragged ain!”
I’d flown in froht to our beach at Point Judith To the spot we’d always picked, with a view out over the sandbar I watched the sky and water gray on the horizon, and it looked so real and endless, and I knew I even said it to myself, “She’s free”
The beach at Point Judith, Rhode Island, courtesy of Jonah Lenox
LUCY LIM: I’m Lucy I’arten She should have been odhth The hottest day on record that year Theof her funeral, the heat still hadn’t broken Hotter than a shearer’s arht mind would have co theht
But as soon as Mom and me turned onto Colu the road all the way to the church doors, and ates Plus photographers, news crews, so many kids I’d never seen before indeep-violet irises, printouts of her art, that Catch elevator picture of her and Lincoln, the printouts of her paintings, candles, even teddy bears And I re, Holy smokes, Addy! I wish you’d been here to see