"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4r1jMNNwz
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPokHlLbPb7
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmHUFJ0H0A
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAbpk1wcrg
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"And... how did we meet?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqeknyYbBg
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHhm5k2sUm
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsixxWlSwto
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ut2lA0LpZ
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFsuzLf3sB
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xBbhjZ5E5
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wQa7auASF
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnHzlcRbGj
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPxNEuHuXX
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How does she do that?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4Njgb5kkC
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbNnEHkGHq
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"Did I ask that out loud?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxw4PcNZzH
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQLceip3b7
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38Wqd7oHE8
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Why have we never had sex? 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ145z2Y807P
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmizIIuqiUI
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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.)564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByHtaC42VW
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKg7l63dLCY
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Two.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaqCPv5p4m
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I feel like a turd.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcZF9n5OXb
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvrFyru25o
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BBvd6a8OM
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVsRAaviV3
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1k5TwiujP
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0n09pVHku
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGMIfE7E2E
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP80eQYpVHf
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeBN2gHOuY
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjQH24boeD
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***564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRHxhf9owq
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcZjqGV8fq
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0oyrQ0ZOs
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Beautiful.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmFCWVuarZ
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Special.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSF1azZ2rn
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Unique.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZByqeZpUzw
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Extraordinary.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JUcctIxis
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Kind.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVtVczhLMn
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Loving.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7t06lUulF
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHgPJHS6Qk
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5YrGaXwGc
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Evetta: Hey.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pGgVrKL4A
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxHhaPIvVb
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Me: Hey.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq4skUjnRW
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSHbSBycfV
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxjV3t0aEG
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I see typing appear in her box.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iXFfR3vl9
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SMBecHLm3
I miss u 2, btw.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgzn3uzTSE
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptRz18kIRQ
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9tNjS8l06
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvgCLAl7Bc
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO66aYYvnMX
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJDi9nTqq0
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6lpw9c0Z4
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2czx4NiXjC
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wU7UhwEjb
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLfxJL8rTZ
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZP556ac9U
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMkVaAkmVA
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomA4DwJvQB
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbLh4apFpY
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7YuHcGqC8
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"Sure," I reply.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdXfw8b7Gk
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"Can I stay?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNa2JxUR7y
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Stay? What does that entail?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDlLeSfhim
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9p4rsyfTbm
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Or so I thought.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaeMZF51EW
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKJmgJxRnW
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"Okay."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHoJ4n9S0P
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHymjBLTPy
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknCQWkYyAx
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSFIEdb8el
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwIXHKXTBQ
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwKaZ2AcgU
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3zvy33fas
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2Vf1oMbRA
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFApC5TEJrN
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVcQLYa1xy
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYqYaJ4m3s
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFQAQ7o08L
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgbXdACnrY
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A few months before I met Evetta.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4Ru08p9vt
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgdI7SCNbI
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR126UyNtXF
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She smiles.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCffcDv2XM
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HbK3LEgEA
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS95HD3KDZ2
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Ask her questions.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63uMscyBKX
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Get to know her better.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSDQFhm6oe
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTgZHipReI
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazu6dCmFVj
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"Why did you come here?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUfJTcNnXj
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"I came here to work as a nurse."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHX7Bmdu36
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Oh.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpP1dwJAmS
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgApRbeeLoD
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzerRHsOKId
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHoZoORHdvW
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxLMttXEZs
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"What was it like?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenJ2eMktsX
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"Huh?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe5gpE93la
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmu8zvwwzJt
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UL2jXnT5M
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsok0kfE6BT
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXsOZL6JwJ
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She lets out a shaky laugh.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUgdwEovd3
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwXBS763aC
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdShlWX1me
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuwDPDH47B
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4W1V7oVuTm
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcx1iARmwBN
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EbxAMQhke
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"October 21, 1992."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDFht9EaZO
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"Any siblings?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNaEo3LuRI
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"No."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWPWpkhGv1
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"Favourite food?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeswyzpAS9
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"Vegetable lasagna."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlBJbwnnfd
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"Favourite drink flavour?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd9rGiSlgs
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"Guava pineapple juice."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6M9aBJHqQP
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"Favourite ice cream?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwbwkbwqmQ
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgO13dP1213
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gcCdKFPEy
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"What things do you like?" 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsff241puXl
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdW1mKDSV7B
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWkURYj3ZD
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UKa5tYeVv
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96umCdO4oQ
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXsRzL65g2
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"How many instruments do you have?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBlftlHQ0k
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"Nine."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxnecX6JO5
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Shit.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMxi2f25er
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPA56EBVbIq
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"What does Disklavier mean?"564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYO0XpD3fEi
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"It can play by itself."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ALgwhEn12
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"Wow."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2FR1dSwAJ
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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.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGO4odaoSpc
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUJxiHsO8x
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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."564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGbXy6NFUQ
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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. 564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJ3LTawfzP
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My final thought before falling asleep is:564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROmgj4PXtk
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How long will it take for me to remember her?564Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTE49SQWFc
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