"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgwgKNqUpB
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTI08OvDnIx
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjx22xHXag
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fKB18DM87
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"And... how did we meet?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGqg91frSL
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOzFqlhtMO
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkr2zUaYRgf
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwYTaB29X6
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡec0cubpzK4
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K8tl6PM2d
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kA94ZgI3Z
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHAZRaGCgp
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsc9wZlm3P
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How does she do that?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTsiY863zT
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUYGgDRUCZ
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"Did I ask that out loud?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8yOMhssre
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvCvLur97K
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEMcqswIj0
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Why have we never had sex? 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHmzzdcuk6
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc22QZiz8Kn
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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.)582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBNc2IvZH7
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Tcw8HPIGu
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Two.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQLYbou8jz
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I feel like a turd.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGjP2PeBdN
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14bqq00c64
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXxtzfNiMD
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡws949IPqPB
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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. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwTJNFuUta
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkT9uBo4MJ
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxwF0MJe0O
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjH4H8vfYXd
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7f8tisZUvu
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDawSDHxQJ
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***582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFceNodXhg8
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitu9wzWrQm
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTt5HZ6aI8
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Beautiful.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZ1nkhA8XS
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Special.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXHryAXeDr
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Unique.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyezVTu16v
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Extraordinary.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdFNlRy7d5
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Kind.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXX1JuNkf0r
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Loving.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD50SImScdp
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS7MWXhvpf
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjiFbc3YMU
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Evetta: Hey.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8BWNDA9Rn
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSu5CxHyVN
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Me: Hey.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRdyAHQHfl
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0KT9jAUQN
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwh02YYtspk
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I see typing appear in her box.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6T2q3K1wp
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RfT1ARFCu
I miss u 2, btw.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2xISTfS7N
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKn3dMiN4Z
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyImBYQRSOD
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeK6nVmIHf
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsZ7eaNy0g
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zPLLYWGdP
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDznHUMqyq
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArt4p0uAD7
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCrbBVyqAH
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡig1KkFAVMl
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS454xuVGcy
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8Ceo7CokJ
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwic5A5R2tO
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2XDe02u6J
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmcU2qt0TE
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"Sure," I reply.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBU3rUa9Lak
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"Can I stay?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1GSdB7ZQz
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Stay? What does that entail?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsch0o3Not
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9ET3tW7BD
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Or so I thought.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoO5uPyhIF
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidsMSSsRe8
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"Okay."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMgDKUHW4X
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsytfkfTyH
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zb0Ix1MzF
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyAUw7rIHZ
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsWsMDJ8nK
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJtOQ3svet
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcv5p8uSFq
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRc0qHsY1bj
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijeGHgn7iu
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYrZIzc1GF
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoozK17P1y9
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqnUWduEGR
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0ezC73YVa
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A few months before I met Evetta.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVKTB6U7lD
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnBxaejDqt
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8qsOP8AAq
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She smiles.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdr0zHidH27
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4Jqrhcx3E
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7MJLJyfZJ
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Ask her questions.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLy8YrVwjiK
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Get to know her better.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMi5eHtcDU
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xoEieco1S
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HIiPs4cyt
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"Why did you come here?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJebmh6jsD
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"I came here to work as a nurse."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajldejyK5x
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Oh.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCNZWYU9Qc
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bf5SShXgi
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZiIvHJFqB
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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. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAr94GfiDn
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5HQwlgkV6
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"What was it like?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VT7goEZCM
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"Huh?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrkXIuIakK
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliM5k28Zrg
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNosUNn3TD
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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. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgMaawh8kb
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QEyI1yIVA
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She lets out a shaky laugh.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHatJaMkhS
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOu8OMyf1UH
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQeEOuAs41
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrL6lxCgQUV
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVx1Tltjs8c
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANshGK6mL7
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVs3BnFdYQe
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"October 21, 1992."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEF4U8ysVU7
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"Any siblings?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1DWMpdviA
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"No."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdFWT2emkz
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"Favourite food?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTvnnn2mhb
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"Vegetable lasagna."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMVNLfI8x1
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"Favourite drink flavour?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntUsEmLqGE
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"Guava pineapple juice."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7mOK7VtqG
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"Favourite ice cream?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RNipYkYBn
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyniIYMyLn
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhv5bCmxHI8
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"What things do you like?" 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgyEdatTsh
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cpcQn7Deb
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWDf6Zn2wt
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrogj4kYOa
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqrNVi5kUW
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAngSfqQii
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"How many instruments do you have?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjDFeXf8hm
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"Nine."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRW80w5q3H
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Shit.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4QodTYCnD
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4QbW1aVCb
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"What does Disklavier mean?"582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4uQUATYcV
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"It can play by itself."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YrK4qEby2
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"Wow."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oH6c51Eqk
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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.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOLsBR0u1n
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGY5zNAKo7
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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."582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8yzgRR8Ds
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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. 582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJyV3pACjq
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My final thought before falling asleep is:582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfsZk9Gz5u
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How long will it take for me to remember her?582Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxrKb4KgQk
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