The whole weekend has become a kind of a numb feeling.

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Stepping onto the main street of Nong Khiaw from the vehicle, it takes a while to shake off the bruised and slightly numb feeling that comes from riding along the heavily potholed roads of rural Laos.

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For a while, he lay like that, feeling not refreshed from the rest but only numb.

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