"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbiIKSbYfp
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLu6Xt3LKc
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonEElCFjdd
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsiry6NC6E
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"And... how did we meet?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2gUiDnVHk
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqolgfUVR6
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSl0snK15w
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKlmiPrCNw
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqglpVVNbav
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnUh9H1xpD
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF6oM83N5B
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uCJcxQAL2
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfxnlUI0Cp
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How does she do that?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcBNlxfXkL
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunVS9y85eU
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"Did I ask that out loud?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDgmyKdEQu
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8EbXknXQWL
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡck8JKASuu4
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Why have we never had sex? 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsomh7cjqPc
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WF3aU7lZk
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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.)464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMbAMjEKhX
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuv09m7CLVK
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Two.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93ic7hErBp
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I feel like a turd.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHrAeGj4Hp
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMIpPmTrVc
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtHbAdreIW
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qFTUVUQLb
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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. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8zyENll06
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPrAQtZsnG
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmazGNRgko4
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBc8XucBC4s
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9GgXRdif0
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRPeUsuL3c
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvAAMKX13K
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkHjoDJK3E
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Beautiful.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPeBjDam9D
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Special.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BOYY6ZYgS
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Unique.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4mihP7fKq
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Extraordinary.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdIATj8YYP
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Kind.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKk9VvoWyH
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Loving.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyZWLRH5Ht
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMJ4ElGNZ6
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6aJP8o6VF
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Evetta: Hey.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8XeonWhRv
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6vRComqK5
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Me: Hey.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoYfk6r7zI
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpnhpe7Hul
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjbE2mDont
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I see typing appear in her box.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJT0MhZ48j
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnMCddWTdq
I miss u 2, btw.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdHN69JcYC
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEbmtgNKrA
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXhgLtoLGX
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoORG07Uybz
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqsmM1hJel
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIsQyqEayb
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvf3ToTtXK
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsnFpjJdQD
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGpOLCMDv0
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CJMmVND3M
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ4P0TdXJx
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVxZsLoveo
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIdfhWKtUK
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9hHeoyNff
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKFKDdvkbP
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"Sure," I reply.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPb51pdwimf
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"Can I stay?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfynx9taz0f
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Stay? What does that entail?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZTMqH43fa
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCmxC7n2Aa
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Or so I thought.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZbcFxl6hl
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCalvUymJxx
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"Okay."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBQqfAlOdW
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNZFgYFOro
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvZUjXIHSo
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJmjK9BOuT
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2ngo08Oiz
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5txPowhz2V
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eaTQH47Sg
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlb5DRbQkEu
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmS8XgrvY2
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14uMwR4z9C
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zhfWSwLvT
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVGumaZoLq
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchHWeBn4IR
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A few months before I met Evetta.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjpqa9sXrs
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUNoY71Ghc
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTAQRncvgJ
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She smiles.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wIyBARU4z
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWe0TQIPFti
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5NKvRF0HF
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Ask her questions.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnUxXRK7iM
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Get to know her better.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCriu2g0z3
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRUBul4Ago
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu03hE0oczB
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"Why did you come here?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzmmjHRUTN
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"I came here to work as a nurse."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡok6L7uyhsC
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Oh.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlytcFBAhi
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8redLCmHY
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgyoG4Yogc
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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. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MgUhFVDhb
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sXTYKc77S
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"What was it like?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8jRVAzJ3f
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"Huh?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K4K6b1RkQ
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoobNh0kPz
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpG8uehzLRP
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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. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAHP9z87MQ
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkE6Q7vqUs
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She lets out a shaky laugh.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYaNg1oIGX
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRVdNagXKv
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeX7D4k46x
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0e3CUzwBPx
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgabRuFZ6Gh
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5FbwmTDhA
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bFUJTDSby
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"October 21, 1992."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YappkzSJZ
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"Any siblings?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWxkqkPm9b
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"No."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFXe8ifDRf
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"Favourite food?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhUDOza9GP
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"Vegetable lasagna."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVlW6Ttw0l
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"Favourite drink flavour?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU59XNhSFGN
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"Guava pineapple juice."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoE5JmxEZBT
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"Favourite ice cream?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYgxJML4Wp
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVOWPfAt8w
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabPEs3HPRA
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"What things do you like?" 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAnr4dgUu6
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvwF6s8yHK
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYMoGL6ogC
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDCT6AaNzs
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07aOz84axT
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUZ3n7lndu
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"How many instruments do you have?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbB0oEZTKv
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"Nine."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1zpomS6n4
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Shit.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzcGYMAvOr
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAs4ca58JVc
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"What does Disklavier mean?"464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrqCOJtDpr
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"It can play by itself."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jLHKbqn1J
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"Wow."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLy3OlMAhw
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCGJYbnvyN
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmX3PppedI
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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."464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0Px1T8D7w
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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. 464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRPQUhgHI4
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My final thought before falling asleep is:464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡML843cgyPx
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How long will it take for me to remember her?464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXrW0yAfTz
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