"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjTcmr3EMn
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc30RibsIJK
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"Six months," she says, putting her hand in front of her mouth so that I can't see the contents of her mouth, as she is eating some sort of vegetable concoction. She insisted that she pay, since she brought me here, and bought me a strawberry daiquiri; my favourite.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfdW4ZL2EQ
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I figured that she'd put up a fight if I insisted on paying, so I didn't bother. Besides, I'm not one of those guys who insist on paying for something if the person doesn't want me to; I just want to make her happy.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcaGHzUTdG
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"And... how did we meet?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F3eHd3aK5
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRD0eqGSmqW
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzhpNMfPhi
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Huh. So she initiated this relationship. I'm usually the one in control when it comes to... well everything. What a twist.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWqHpKAb0G
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EqOZ4Tan2
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFuERw4tgr
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq30ZXcpqu0
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Nk12vD1Eo
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyK5wbYy1Yk
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How does she do that?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3y3sTAfQLH
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"I learned how to read you like a book, to learn what you really mean behind your words; usually, you're just straightforward with what you want, but when you get shy or embarrassed, or god forbid, angry, it's almost impossible to get you to say what you want, so I just had to learn how to read you."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPUjgt7B3X
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"Did I ask that out loud?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYsB3RN9so
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCsheDZjAT
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVtkbbe62p
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Why have we never had sex? 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ32eDfSbau
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7h3OgIsqyK
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And I know she's a grown ass woman; she said in her voice notes, at one point, that she just turned twenty three (a few days after I fell off of that bloody horse), and at another point that she'd just turned twenty four (a few days before I woke up.)566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslOPkbXFPu
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZJrsqEj3K
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Two.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCbgSvKxRZ
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I feel like a turd.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqpiYhTbyc
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTKgNQJPLi
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiLN0lKUVb
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"We wanted our relationship to be purely based on love; we're not waiting until marriage or anything, but we agreed that we'd do it when the time is right."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0devsPXSMm
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Her face suddenly turns pensive, then, if I'm not mistaken, lust begins to dance in her brown eyes as she drags them back to me, and run's them up and down my face and chest, which is all she can see, due to the table. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ACiiGKTjx
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOyZ8j1OaK
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Good god, she's eye-fucking me. I'm in the middle of a bar, and I can feel myself getting hard for her.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQHSXmuQIX
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK866rgNezt
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3j7LnEez2
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgBnl8zXAa
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***566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpkAucTO3y
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After an over-the-top greeting from my dad, stating his most profound apologies, and promising that he'll make it up to me, I go to my room, and stare at the ceiling — well, where the ceiling should be. I can't see shît.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2w0MUNozUo
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj914JxnBNw
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Beautiful.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTrfn7WDoF
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Special.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3SwMpH3Ro
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Unique.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkuzfmbAxl
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Extraordinary.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEnBfm4yCT
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Kind.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUk4fKaOnTD
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Loving.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmWsmEpOkl
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUEjcrBl2M
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My phone vibrates, pulling me back to my bedroom, here, on earth, and I see a WhatsApp notification appear on my phone.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBcTVW8GFo
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Evetta: Hey.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yu6KTdjPw
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfgrcrPH6W
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Me: Hey.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45npOiq6jU
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4DCoJUg9t
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSzO74MOgd
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I see typing appear in her box.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ455ksCGX8k
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00hZ1JN9lC
I miss u 2, btw.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbovnjr62Ko
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17q3w9IrpB
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoolhDNrV83
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My heart is beating out of my chest; I think about it. I don't want to ruin this for us. But at the same time, I've learned how quickly things can change; why I shouldn't wait.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyFsMxIoD4
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XbmUZz0FS
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Me: I love you, too. I don't remember you, but I feel it in my chest when you're around. I think I felt it a little from that first voice note; it just kept growing from there.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8k25EE3jSX
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBIn3AXkUc
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgFXto9oIt
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HSMHRaHcY
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0el70fBntV
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"Because life is a motherfuckér, then you die," I say, sounding bitter. I'm about to continue, when her giggling interrupts me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswZ6XMSAEJ
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqhbLuuhXr
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdQ1m5KYFM
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9cuV8YduP
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUW17EENSm
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"Sure," I reply.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlssuufoUY
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"Can I stay?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVy2v6DTkM
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Stay? What does that entail?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRWjquBTrT
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfT2g4msi1t
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Or so I thought.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2eklznty8
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VES41EHzb
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"Okay."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFu1foSJh9q
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She hangs up, and I just stare at my phone like an idiot, thinking of her. Next thing I know, she's in front of me, the light in my room turned on.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfFZ9DK4JW
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKR4pna2kEv
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh3VhePtac
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSHKP1GOsM
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfWkven0n2
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7WBySiIlN
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0Un5MFTGP
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"It's true that we have no idea what the future holds... but you can't live your life just rushing into things because of that uncertainty. I love you, and I'm glad that you love me too... but I don't want you to rush everything in your life out of fear."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVF8tuPbEtG
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I ponder her words. I see where she's coming from, and I felt that way once, but it's not the same anymore. I'm not the same anymore.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLkTFiQcFQ
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSLKrMKMmA
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I let out a long sigh. I don't want to talk about this anymore, so decide to ask her questions. I don't remember anything about her after all.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNaKOgIJBm
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This is actually beginning to frustrate me. It's been almost two weeks since I woke up — the hospital kept me for a week, and I've been home for five days — and the only memory that's coke back to me is my mother making me a fruit cake when I was eight, and the fact that I vowed to be a vegetarian about two years ago.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROMw6tzgxe
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A few months before I met Evetta.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomphWsMu8k
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMn7aDYvBU
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoqiyfJrLZ
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She smiles.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm8GDBCZY9
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVg6thNesPw
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yE3WUKFWe
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Ask her questions.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGQEHvYMhT
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Get to know her better.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcruXtHDJGx
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6ug5Pqyhi
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqsx9mPPcY
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"Why did you come here?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDxfMQ6Zn8
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"I came here to work as a nurse."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkE6EBrDQO
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Oh.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS41E1hZzM9
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFZIquBorN
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"You were a vet. You loved it. I used to watch you work whenever I was off duty. You were an amazing vet; you are an amazing vet."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7V0ft3Hnc
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Apart from the fact that my memories are coming back at the speed of the sloths in Zootopia (that's what my life's been reduced to; watching children's movies on Hulu), I'm a bit thrown off by the whole is/was, are/were thing. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpFKwAtt9W
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVa7rCFyhs
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"What was it like?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHU43m8l48
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"Huh?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPA1cRngSS
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJH1V4HjgrD
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQufF0Jd5F
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"Well... I stopped shitting myself as soon as your brain swelling started to go down. Took forever for that to happen though. Before you could make too much progress, you started to have seizures; that set you back. Scared the shît out of me, too. And your parents. That's why they kept you under for so long. They wouldn't let you wake up until you fully recovered, well as much as you could, whether it took one year, or five. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlW6jTzHLsj
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Personally, I find it amazing that you don't have any personal brain damage. That was my worst fear; that you'd wake up and not even remember your own name."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnH7Xajjao
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She lets out a shaky laugh.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7hie8i1d4
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"When you said you didn't remember me... They only said that you'd recovered; never said anything about amnesia. I'm not going to lie; that hurt."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7Vjl39VmW
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP29166Ykjd
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She reaches out and takes my hand in hers, brushing her thumb over the back of my hand. Looking at our hands, and then me, she places a small smile on her face.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjIaeGSQ5B
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFH7eke6xSP
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡud87SD9NlD
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuREC7S4VJ9
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"October 21, 1992."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05ch0u4YVh
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"Any siblings?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KZtos5aNn
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"No."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8clarXIvcz
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"Favourite food?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi3Yl7iHEI
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"Vegetable lasagna."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2FS1Jgrox
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"Favourite drink flavour?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VIIlZ54H9
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"Guava pineapple juice."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xMho2OOpa
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"Favourite ice cream?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdJeClymB3
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOerVcgmct
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I bite my lip, and decide to move on to something that will tell me more about her character and lifestyle.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75UcOuuEEU
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"What things do you like?" 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfQpEUDjUA
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"I love blue eyeliner," she says with a chuckle, laying down beside me with her head resting on my shoulder. "I collect dollies which are either black, or of black descent. I've always wanted a dolly custom made to look like me."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHNcpyXTFd
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkNr6vV3GU
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhlceUMKPd
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcSPG1fplb
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"I have two. Every present I get from a parent or relative is almost always a musical instrument. My rich uncle got me a grand piano a few years ago. The real problem was getting it shipped over here."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cXXjKZYfk
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"How many instruments do you have?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gtR4nGJkf
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"Nine."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZdIlCSDVI
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Shit.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdE9TM94eo5
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"An electric guitar, a classical guitar, an electro acoustic guitar, a grand piano, an upright Disklavier piano, a keyboard, synthesiser, an acoustic violin, and an electric violin."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PeItvvTtL
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"What does Disklavier mean?"566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3tgwWJXVJ
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"It can play by itself."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQzsWgB9OT
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"Wow."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjdJ5mf70j
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"I get that a lot," she says, getting up onto her knees, and stretching for the light switch by the door, turning off the light and plunging us into darkness.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFEf7AWadZ
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeXC9E8zyV
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"I don't really want anything else. I mean, you can never have too much, but right now I just prefer to get a new pedal board for my Strat, or a new bow for my violin. I love playing music just as much as I love my job."566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7dQLGkor8
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She is silent after that and soon, she starts to snore loudly. Despite the loud noise, I find myself nearing unconsciousness. 566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzrSSiAg3K
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My final thought before falling asleep is:566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMtMviSjKq
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How long will it take for me to remember her?566Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2d8eoYqkjj
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