"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncUGE2RrPN
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNUncySRfQ
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiy4ChPv5Gd
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQeov8R6G2
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"And... how did we meet?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLkd4bOE8k
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpg5LMMXTW
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlXPWy55sI
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLY94OvTCA
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPrnZO2SvU
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfor1qQWKMd
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tjpqOOnYY
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2UWvteRdy
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLLijxLg6K
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How does she do that?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0BkrfqChl
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0iDTNTH7i
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"Did I ask that out loud?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Uf9dC1DDK
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOqcvepiM4
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0mHg5LlkK
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Why have we never had sex? 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHbyOU7GQe
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwpIBTGX9g
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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.)502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZU5BxjPjF
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0LdMWcJLE
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Two.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gSOyasq5f
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I feel like a turd.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1vokodYuw
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMunRSCg800
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRIFcMLcEc
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6FoevPQ57
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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. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1nL7VQJWF
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedX6k7CniK
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUpuImbYqv
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEIPE81Bpg
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OUHSw0i19
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6k5G1a6uF
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1adWGk9lf
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikmxCO2u9z
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Beautiful.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8H45KnjZl
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Special.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFZY2ishwk
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Unique.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGD8QB7FNFi
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Extraordinary.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMSWKUYd0d
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Kind.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApXx6tDLzO
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Loving.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxqv5AmfLF
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTw7oIY4cIH
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFeVtV3jNr
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Evetta: Hey.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfnziJkMli
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwrRojpIkc
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Me: Hey.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2JciyV8L2
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9Dn5jrztV
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINo3NnsJHb
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I see typing appear in her box.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgJBfucdI2
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZlNMqa2iA
I miss u 2, btw.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9AaHbGJ1S
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfooWuSNRSv
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELVCHsgfwf
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoMaDCpdOR
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24VKzDHrhc
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCHEki9GHI
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFPZJYcSCX
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyKkpH0TQp
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn18vLzcSPX
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqqOrhQ939
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwO62fspZW
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfLk0uuj67
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0YEqE5TpO
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCMgtwN11J
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9yCDi9Ens
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"Sure," I reply.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYl775deKsl
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"Can I stay?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ioQxBdpXb
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Stay? What does that entail?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCm0GKaJNKU
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEEqszDcAX
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Or so I thought.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYWvs1tzOX
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZjU32ncV2
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"Okay."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKX2rtOj8u
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhZur23tx5
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8KNhKJiSz
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eHUwaSvsQ
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfl2R5tcWr
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETorVznEyY
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwH3evJAa12
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgh60i4v175
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK2uN9KzkC
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7MVRZDVd5
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8ZKxv4r7a
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEdg5LQi4n
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0jfoWHHmo
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A few months before I met Evetta.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Qxhp3b9Hd
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUXsJnZ0QA
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJWzyoqfHN
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She smiles.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyI4DKImSm
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqEfsaBtaz
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmxkGu0L7b
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Ask her questions.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcARq5ggRe
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Get to know her better.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMrcZ7CInF
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFric2JEgF
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqbBqThgDY
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"Why did you come here?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxUnpjrQbp
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"I came here to work as a nurse."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVt49GWSUIq
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CACX02oRS
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZhuRxVNv8
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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. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhE7pBfTA9
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD92ydnJNXg
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"What was it like?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnn8lzyBf5p
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"Huh?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKsWc6eYZO
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnM2hUb3fE9
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfc6OlCl9cR
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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. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpU5vecnY2
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXZ1xJH1UK
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She lets out a shaky laugh.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcG8FMiSoh
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81BB3vGKR1
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVEpPpYi0I
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJu8v7490gB
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlEYOwmWRX
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS7QP2kTzs
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AvVwy4dvW
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"October 21, 1992."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWTVUW6ihU
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"Any siblings?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVJ33L8haE
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"No."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyBIuD927F
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"Favourite food?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5dIaFwm0c
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"Vegetable lasagna."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aO95fbyTK
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"Favourite drink flavour?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIS6zw31Yh
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"Guava pineapple juice."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhr3CFiNiz1
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"Favourite ice cream?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBj0tU9YeGg
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGut9yZlML
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3xiJptj8T
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"What things do you like?" 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGTlq2atRe
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTMxnt8myh
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kwp7QRkq6
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SG1gjjcJb
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhVIYSngYJ
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfyc8kMKx5
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"How many instruments do you have?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0WcfvjBti
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"Nine."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOCI47um0h
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Shit.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvTc1gYVdE
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DdjPHwXUx
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"What does Disklavier mean?"502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmakdzxw8zG
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"It can play by itself."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJyBY3j1x3
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"Wow."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41jYW3Tohv
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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.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30xlTdTsrV
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtzIp6hUNm
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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."502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejIQxmTaOy
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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. 502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eo8lu0ask
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My final thought before falling asleep is:502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwreNoowB9j
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How long will it take for me to remember her?502Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcQdGuRsgm
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