"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIfBYOxDwR
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwXYuVovEw
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQs75EgYoE
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaI1UHUOfEW
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"And... how did we meet?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHIrupV57t
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57nSB2ROJE
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsXGXUilyQ
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSHOcA9PGg
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qPBfCbNFd
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQraAlJs9p
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMJFnL7iA9
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4BvU1UjkR
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlna8S49tMT
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How does she do that?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHP20vuYwbm
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFK7srTyMru
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"Did I ask that out loud?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGOpIj5TeR
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDT7G2ONJYC
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnj9rhSOvV
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Why have we never had sex? 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglw1opLi5y
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa0nDuYVG5
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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.)485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxYDjBV6ka
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7zfAPLuMJ
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Two.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0g6lacg2N
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I feel like a turd.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfO1wnUpmEg
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtajrWNOYM6
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglLoE1Y1T5
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbee7gPfcD
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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. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlr4mE9BTng
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr1HPskUZH
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwI3YkUOeR
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0HnND36D7
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxic3lZQhv
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2xy21fTj3
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hEwBlwZYV
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RqQyWmCNz
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Beautiful.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLuxnm69pk
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Special.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrPGjoLLIN
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Unique.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsI7OY6tJK
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Extraordinary.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgYwlzUCIU
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Kind.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgjPW5qy4Y
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Loving.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MpbOHtZuF
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit1dIAs3Wi
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGxW14kt8L
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Evetta: Hey.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxJF6mr3aD
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuqtXYaJiK
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Me: Hey.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWDOmZocpx
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xiWlHZYj0
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHCOz1vEnS
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I see typing appear in her box.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIk0B8OCFr
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DJ7wdDaMK
I miss u 2, btw.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7UHuqQSno
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbOsMAhIeO
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYo8Ccqna67
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJ4XsAF8JX
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLco4aTuVF
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnugoVAeix
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1PuAqOroj
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0pncPAP8n
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd35YFc7oiG
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRrs35NJE0
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8nz0mh9wg
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kWyapCg8M
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVpXM1H5HF
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpA3Tlvr4ur
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvm759IVQbX
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"Sure," I reply.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kBtzN5LVE
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"Can I stay?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoECaVYmZM
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Stay? What does that entail?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMJ0UEhlGM
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoE2M3r821
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Or so I thought.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3typy6GCSY
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCoL4QFmxv
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"Okay."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXXnriqQni
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtTzyfGEqv
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsinzEf7Hrl
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7flJ8z7N3U
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwB6Fp1Kyj
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqEH1VmTEr
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRksFLjdSC
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirqqqmUr4E
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3CYYgEeLN
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4s0gx26M9m
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWUSqUtsNu
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQYpMzphue
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTve9hrZXO
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A few months before I met Evetta.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUAJ84eGXs
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmU2uM2n4my
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbd1wzynlZP
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She smiles.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLykawl6iyK
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3PThm2tCg
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUUttBHRs7
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Ask her questions.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjer9cgUKJx
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Get to know her better.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGSOsBo0lk
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxy1OxbmFL
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZg3YKMGBR
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"Why did you come here?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaY9Dj8LZlC
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"I came here to work as a nurse."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3pYvmLHy4
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Oh.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7tv2FZZCt
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZ5jn4V0Ld
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYFUhzWPqc
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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. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTpOpUQlN5
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0T6U2fo2d0
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"What was it like?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkFqKeBvlZ
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"Huh?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8HPUq7RZF
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZHrdixjKs
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeOKpioYrU
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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. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyT8Opp2C1T
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBNNhGl41D
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She lets out a shaky laugh.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99wa8lmf5f
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyuS86fDuN
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhO4LZdFf2u
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTv0F37acj0
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0PZ8UwqMw
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTnTsSwwEb
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1G6YOeGyd
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"October 21, 1992."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnVltnMmzB
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"Any siblings?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ252DKUA1D9
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"No."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKWeBZ8Wvh6
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"Favourite food?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5JQtHRUO4
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"Vegetable lasagna."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUgFqzWNKb
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"Favourite drink flavour?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8qtAm92z0
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"Guava pineapple juice."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuAw5UFKIG
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"Favourite ice cream?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM80Cs65df8
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNuadXhFzh
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmeC034SDf
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"What things do you like?" 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjB2LE1Ut41
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP77Rpm3Mvq
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxr850yFDPD
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AcNQaQsis
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQB1nFpm6v
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPO2MXfQgkJ
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"How many instruments do you have?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhFDsUMlye
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"Nine."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8K4UpYp2bx
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Shit.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrxuRwuQ4W
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPweTg6CrT
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"What does Disklavier mean?"485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6uPZOTHKY
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"It can play by itself."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyviDtbzr6B
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"Wow."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibMCywW7xv
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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.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6k8avP6kt
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEfDXbTLlM
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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."485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWzskAyzeh
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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. 485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WenBIGYgb
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My final thought before falling asleep is:485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbD9IShuRmu
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How long will it take for me to remember her?485Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ajYjhXJ9S
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