"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vDmU5GLq5
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6VaZjlCbS
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0XNUDFeLI
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUq3JHjc05
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"And... how did we meet?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0Ld0TQldc
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDZUnVMS0l
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfduXQBX9j8
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFIaWKBJz2
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8b4cLDW3a
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtJ15NSx7n
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cMzbs0EjW
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNMG4KMYmU
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWawoTOzLG
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How does she do that?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNoRhv3YOL
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCuYdmaMO5
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"Did I ask that out loud?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHasNY78tz
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHyVeGkNmi
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA59hzRIdwN
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Why have we never had sex? 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDlWP2NSLT
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRbVmdOjPi
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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.)569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDliq5X73Z
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsN4HNgYBv
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Two.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNrzdrn6HW
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I feel like a turd.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBQIFvJZqg
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRvZDOGsIL
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB98d5Ul5IR
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16RNIsZjp5
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTohdUegA3
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXdDyoKlwj
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD2a26KooA
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYxKB3diOK
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qMPPq1Uyo
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1RVkNc2Qw
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***569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4AKVfWYkC
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbiX2po9TC
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAj229Denn
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Beautiful.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMyCcXTzOV
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Special.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAecYM0Wsb
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Unique.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGISCs2aJE
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Extraordinary.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGam358Z6D
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Kind.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceEyKfYjmQ
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Loving.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLTiH8347W
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLE6Bx7cLo
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZT6fwowVM
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Evetta: Hey.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEwjxXGbNq
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMjmA1Sa8R
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Me: Hey.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndx2pChcyK
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88MhzYFLSG
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wl4F91j5Q
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I see typing appear in her box.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rp4iGc5qc
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkw8KgLaFnn
I miss u 2, btw.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVESq564ja2
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpAFNMbr7U
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2j9Pcmm6Du
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6d2pyweDg3
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfe7qrD1knf
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclDO6CHjyz
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPp9d9GNQE
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQj0QIkXsgF
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7H38k27r7
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxlgjNORBr
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSvFeCX7Mm
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnU8obN2063
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzvo7tYJZq
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BQN9VMgen
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1MaXrXLzt
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"Sure," I reply.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosbfPhNa1H
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"Can I stay?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazpfjcmR4o
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Stay? What does that entail?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQCcwESkfT
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIII3Px9RsD
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Or so I thought.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwI2398eTx
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uBZOjL62S
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"Okay."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lpDUo3ZB3
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQh3v7Gyd9
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeVM1gGgAS
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24g2Z5yNRM
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWrilRkFpl
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxtfaCkStd
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62vCErBgex
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvmBt2ndvK
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgftrH5uNjU
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30c2pYK3k9
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuWkvCpZ79
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdx8xPaY13a
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IdAIDIYUM
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A few months before I met Evetta.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WSwouUf1H
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y1jCdg1IV
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3bV2zrfo3
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She smiles.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaWZBlwPfg
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOvp4sOehn
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGeOxiy8hP
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Ask her questions.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWWIOSBkzn
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Get to know her better.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHswzOqpnKl
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHaXrYBLYe
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjX3RpoBA8Y
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"Why did you come here?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawe9P24LZP
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"I came here to work as a nurse."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96XWPOpfcH
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Oh.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iOEhPJNbD
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMU4ULtBHsn
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqHVgxBxrM
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yi0qvnjjH
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PXhalJswx
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"What was it like?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavieDbjCr7
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"Huh?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2Prina35x
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdat0LztDLz
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RkXMlVGz9
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EF20WoNdD
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrbnUXLXvr
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She lets out a shaky laugh.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhF5d0XYjUM
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3y4FDo1ns
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTnkCqsia1
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0I2EkVKurp
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2eciQoxNi0
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeviS9Xk0r
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡum6Fj1exL2
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"October 21, 1992."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCVsBpnmmN
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"Any siblings?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTmVSdsFNJ
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"No."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zzKdSWmzu
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"Favourite food?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh57nBM3g7C
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"Vegetable lasagna."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPuiYbmur7
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"Favourite drink flavour?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2hkvprtFc
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"Guava pineapple juice."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs23usQDkIe
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"Favourite ice cream?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2uX0xKHEy
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxU4R3osMw
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbfwAm3hyB
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"What things do you like?" 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeWFdwuuiT
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJK7HM5ibs
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNk1Lnhy7C
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHR8TRXokx8
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBnXvr1uco
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCE1pIPF0il
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"How many instruments do you have?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60EZnFCRA9
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"Nine."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLR8ONsjc6N
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Shit.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEhASmB9fd
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaeqynEZ9y
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"What does Disklavier mean?"569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KkUsKPx3h
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"It can play by itself."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXT4R5mQCQ
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"Wow."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKRI5lnoth
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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.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNqxzNxEqi
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5rhSI6cun
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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."569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3b1uHxh6Uy
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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. 569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZd8O6NB6l
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My final thought before falling asleep is:569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVJsvlv9d6
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How long will it take for me to remember her?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TPn9yWvD6
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