"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4q8dyNrO7
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7x7VU1NVew
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8y5CQtHNr
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbZzVRDYMC
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"And... how did we meet?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBR4TnDffaD
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAlJlRHudB
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBngth2wntg
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWijbDCDJG
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UWsrMf3qD
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37bBvQFs60
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcQVeiXj1q
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFHRyInZHf
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixsTmNts5u
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How does she do that?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4eKMmi32o
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yZMRieG8U
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"Did I ask that out loud?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BPfrZOC5h
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tq1kO7PLx
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GGIKGeU9N
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Why have we never had sex? 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpg3rAVqZsI
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eRGXtNLYw
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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.)446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdDkUnakMa
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM03ge9vUs2
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Two.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqplEt6ztG
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I feel like a turd.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVvHkB0hJk
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2zZDCOCeY
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuxZlu4Q5X
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQFosNxzHJ
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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. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWWm787x1b
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgeNIC8Yr1
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yNcKV3aoZ
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjCXRYfy4Z
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hJLczJ60s
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWcvuNF8TK
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***446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnmQx4Sf90
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3HZDH1pLj
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaztun11lub
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Beautiful.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbnvXyWzLt
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Special.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiBIif4By3
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Unique.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCv10KVhdu
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Extraordinary.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGDOZAIxpX
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Kind.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdRxALneae
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Loving.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4EYJi2Xap
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaD9UeKNBGo
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYzxlmBNg1
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Evetta: Hey.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxlVoFHFEa
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAY7uWe2wq
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Me: Hey.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyQIxXYi7N
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8naxDIcLQy
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqemrYjtPMK
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I see typing appear in her box.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETIRQeKXxs
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6HSQhf1gj
I miss u 2, btw.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEumiLZep22
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4yGhmxoOQ
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdgx1T7u8D
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuN5EMIoIW
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgXrgYStdn
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjv2u4f8vWf
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyqXZ3C05M
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jDkIAMnLD
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1xG7sz8Tp
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKxr81uRsj
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtO5xh291V1
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh6EVVIAtQ
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqVsPgZHPK
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67HpLz6pwx
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaErszjUGq
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"Sure," I reply.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ471OT7kdxP
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"Can I stay?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsd4mho22vl
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Stay? What does that entail?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0oaigikzs
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd50j3nV8lW
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Or so I thought.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNxTzQU3q8
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoAluuGjbw
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"Okay."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTONnuoWLgE
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiSW6xtdNc
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hBdQGwC30
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknUvpcoJSo
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cPdqCQBk2
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wjJ5vmAq6
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2j85z5jIW6
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBecg1gFeDz
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlw3r0aVV3
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7cCgZL3sO
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYEEsSb8mF
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJs1WYt3y0
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6lqcJgShP
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A few months before I met Evetta.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhN1uBBXBfD
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlvXLIuYag
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLFAIbJsX8
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She smiles.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpX05wluEaq
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprFdsqsmQB
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVHwxakRVb
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Ask her questions.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiDOq3FAjI
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Get to know her better.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNM2Rd7JSt
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGRUXvcrIw
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtwnUB8O9a
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"Why did you come here?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sWoqO29sj
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"I came here to work as a nurse."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcebfPRrX5u
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Oh.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGEoLdYyfA
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx86B2DZrow
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41ug70YPZg
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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. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTtrorBvmj
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNU1p6zOlf
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"What was it like?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw205Kksxj
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"Huh?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWNyQBdAXc
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89Tc6MkGJS
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrucsBYXvf
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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. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIHKuCC1OD
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9K7BFkcJ4
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She lets out a shaky laugh.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejll0mi6gA
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCplx1ybWw
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXKoH24Ywi
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRh61AcLngN
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4lrM2KA7S
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6jneImMNC
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsmtvQo4uT
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"October 21, 1992."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsROBwc9iG
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"Any siblings?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgr9MhsJzn
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"No."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhcB0Cs9ns
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"Favourite food?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSrrVRLXgV
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"Vegetable lasagna."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1QaIcGEGZ
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"Favourite drink flavour?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5h3dhJqbs
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"Guava pineapple juice."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PEiIGulZu
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"Favourite ice cream?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaY9HCFeukQ
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIg1HD929t
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpHQGRsLxb
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"What things do you like?" 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpddaCnK6NF
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxKwPmxGrh
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AoTU0G97U
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaotJ1SiDf
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqC223bl8Db
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QdHufhugz
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"How many instruments do you have?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iu6tlckIn
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"Nine."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXgxN23sjw
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Shit.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseqd2PePGG
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7gTYRS6Rj
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"What does Disklavier mean?"446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5eu9kihU9
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"It can play by itself."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtILtgWDAy5
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"Wow."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPYt5Vhwmt
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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.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKe3ZLptAPK
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamGkg6X9rA
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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."446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47LoWeUAWg
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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. 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTGRPELErT
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My final thought before falling asleep is:446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNyRtzSlhv
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How long will it take for me to remember her?446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKXkAw7MIo
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