"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrciaUCyPiX
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEiTkeb88J
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzdnDJjvxt
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5yXslmgQP
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"And... how did we meet?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjMaBCM0j3
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqglrbKvAKS
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEddJmc7e56
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSgMBWCMkW
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeWGKRHrm4
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2agGFx5tEx
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCicCgRzSg
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTjKqEhHWT
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5prpCPDwy
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How does she do that?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAx4bPtyd4P
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkivohEc24
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"Did I ask that out loud?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzYw1iLpLa
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP88fOYPNp
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2f7AfL2K2r
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Why have we never had sex? 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNken4XhPee
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIr67mqrQF
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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.)522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLKyqtkfXm
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMUuksbDnB
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Two.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzR5y9czyS
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I feel like a turd.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5saG5oqFw
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVOz7417LC
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW1nPDRJYB
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXbO0RakBk
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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. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FGyxcaasB
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEgPv79V4u
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPpkPMvxVJ
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtMQuJTHN4
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjt9ADJQxj
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0yawXtLsr
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwo19NeqpJJ
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuznUCZoxz
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Beautiful.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6153KJQsv
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Special.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojlfash2le
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Unique.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiy700OeQQ
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Extraordinary.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgzRslznnb
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Kind.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOuWh8jY2x
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Loving.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRKuOfcAp8
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ttzW5HFfq
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Dd4pesH9s
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Evetta: Hey.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglXD6LrDp8
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbtwmC5SV4
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Me: Hey.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94gvCOqVV6
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCvu0dDtcO
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHBn9OxZwN
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I see typing appear in her box.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8di3DIbNE
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbX0UbjmpeM
I miss u 2, btw.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSHz5Gyo9O
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmiYUWzAxo
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvEE3Ushcd
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuaGLhTfD9
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhK4raDWpT
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1Q6UlxbjD
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwcAzPFavZ
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepuXMA8tgj
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXTAHUfmWk
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZYCO758jK
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHFvQOhHps
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqUxQnfksI
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6hvSryaaB
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8oSwucrE5
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q0h6YY9dp
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"Sure," I reply.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvfcBjpUcD
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"Can I stay?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFCPJWHlNb
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Stay? What does that entail?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5d71Pys5g
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsSKutvGe2
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Or so I thought.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9PaSOsnf1
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk65MNQG60J
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"Okay."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuK4FuRMSA
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwlLMV5nE0
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GNQUvtIPU
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ39fBvIDQF
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxUjjcvGSD
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EWZA9CfoY
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbwRKNgZYB
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhWXaatpF0
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIC9zRqTAdM
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSWgOGlsM1
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTKJGLwoQ9
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6kxFFWEVg
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLHPP8dCtU
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A few months before I met Evetta.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4fLPpfEvA
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgz2PrRmwVo
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmy4txdlTe
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She smiles.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSm5g0hZ6SW
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvzlW3vZe8
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEBWKzr2zJ
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Ask her questions.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznP3LcmR6Y
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Get to know her better.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDzWB2ilr0
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0o03lJjIq
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIEJqDTFhl
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"Why did you come here?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlvzdHKhAf
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"I came here to work as a nurse."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWvZHzVGMk
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Oh.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiboz4VfM3R
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWb4X9yrcEh
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjZL0hOG7e
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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. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32Ns19REjk
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc32PRrq4Ub
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"What was it like?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIpBAY8ZG3
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"Huh?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9ZVzvuiA5
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcsnPR4DkX
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHFF1QZNBD
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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. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtVxiLtpCT
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVtBMyt8Yl
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She lets out a shaky laugh.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7czQl3oVXY
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtdMVo579V
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpr67CNJaXn
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CfiT1R1dy
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwORHCwoCda
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwqq98FesN
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJpz3A0zTD
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"October 21, 1992."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWUqtBuaHL
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"Any siblings?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FxmQmuRyL
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"No."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Gg62F813E
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"Favourite food?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCN2t76JR9s
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"Vegetable lasagna."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkb5tCZYn9
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"Favourite drink flavour?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ016ahCj4Un
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"Guava pineapple juice."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfx8iO2oRo8
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"Favourite ice cream?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeED55uXVw
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yyfNj3DNM
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOhuq6z4MN
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"What things do you like?" 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlN8T9xanY
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAbIUWdpBH
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftzS4mTRHc
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7mqAWJiKA
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDVVnQS7W7
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqUUAQGKsT
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"How many instruments do you have?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxoXTTN263
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"Nine."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYaAenbBSC
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Shit.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlgn0eW45D
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuKJ4SY34y
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"What does Disklavier mean?"522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2JggxGITJ
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"It can play by itself."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpddoEzUmN
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"Wow."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoG07urOGti
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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.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJp6hhGeg0
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrvZmKCnIx
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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."522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIQSWklcZr
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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. 522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu97gkIflXh
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My final thought before falling asleep is:522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoIm9quWZd
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How long will it take for me to remember her?522Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHx7eTwctM
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