"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pk8VROwv0
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJ5mGj4T8E
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4987iPeqRd
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx1snLI6Al
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"And... how did we meet?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxnaUmozvL4
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGzlcyHDqW
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgV0HSw51Q
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9P5gvK7Xs
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJLPFc3yBS
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcgiQMvc78
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsG2p9Yme0
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbRGC7orVK
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fZ6graKmb
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How does she do that?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvt6oLoqez3
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaHQvrxRYV
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"Did I ask that out loud?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiNM5LXuYw
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRazWQb8YzT
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzam5Ei1aeI
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Why have we never had sex? 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwyVdDrMaR
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2JuFwnEJB
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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.)520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeh01V3WYaE
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGP9NetxZ6
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Two.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQNK9IZyq3
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I feel like a turd.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41fmmujVZX
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1t8GaOe9X
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGNrlP2P2Z
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILAWWrHM72
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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. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ILZ19MN4t
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoN0piDUs2
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvYmRPQ6P3
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoXqpTg25o
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYco06GHuAQ
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzC5O9DDpZ
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1037L7cnC
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQg4VojlH3e
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Beautiful.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJJgBKDff6
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Special.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR968c7G4Wb
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Unique.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqctQVkn4q
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Extraordinary.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq02C5d7Zvy
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Kind.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkhezzqukc
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Loving.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgreGQuqsa
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuYoIMrtd2
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2wBFt196w
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Evetta: Hey.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOPOy4QyFv
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIzEIUijVf
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Me: Hey.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMF6vKpxvoB
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnOIou1kz3
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbKjZRPaqR
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I see typing appear in her box.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZaJF1CHLk
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM40IHkpLU9
I miss u 2, btw.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGtSzzu5Q4
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyTf0OY5MZ
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO73vf70P0
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHRjmpnWPm
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpts5x870i
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4mOqAo5vX
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3GSw1rS9R
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxgstcFwT7
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINTVdtOhzF
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWE2PV4pG7c
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXBXPyxjJU
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflIyOkLE29
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlthFb0ATk2
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJoniihUeJ
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDalemtAMdh
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"Sure," I reply.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBC6nkPqDbn
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"Can I stay?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4a8fmGVq6i
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Stay? What does that entail?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2vgK6Wc76
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVbVHwxhzC
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Or so I thought.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUVcJzb8N4
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiC0U0lN490
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"Okay."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NfVYQJ8Zn
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyr1NyOEkMF
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpVR9BP41V
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfqEYixf2C
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wwwoWxYbt
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIASstAOQ2
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLXcnUQP86
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPzERBUg9M
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUIZ1tShkV
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVIslteipJ
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCeOBFbSHe
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS41blYpOKo
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOSIVCskkg
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A few months before I met Evetta.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWg3ws0one4
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyFmCldbqV
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYnOBdG7h7
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She smiles.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4cKLoubBv
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnU9maG6Pko
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjOft7iB20
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Ask her questions.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOepXBHQI97
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Get to know her better.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7hGfa1H6Q
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXLTiadf16
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoVO2LrSC2
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"Why did you come here?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHOVT3GG2y
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"I came here to work as a nurse."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRE9ShPAN0
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREmsF5JZ44
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNWlqQthGl
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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. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNLGGS1meb
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bTTMVt8Pi
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"What was it like?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3KPj1jIbr
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"Huh?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xjSl60F9U
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPh5oUGgzz
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0MPCnUd8B
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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. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOu7jLcPkj
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUFlY3CrYj
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She lets out a shaky laugh.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYV0bB4jO7I
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVQ9Vl7qek
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WyiVCoBn9
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW46L3nO34z
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfCQWMqmrk
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MqAUyMxJt
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfxGiwl7dx
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"October 21, 1992."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4Mi1trirY
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"Any siblings?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthiPbk04mO
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"No."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgESxDuUif
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"Favourite food?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0ajCTxvqI
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"Vegetable lasagna."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0lnbtFXLx
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"Favourite drink flavour?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XbinsBLKk
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"Guava pineapple juice."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQH5kCxGBt
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"Favourite ice cream?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxgsnTOnNK
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IT82Kil0Z
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv19aeSGF4l
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"What things do you like?" 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMXSnjsVWb
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51ISeKSqI1
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsl0BBX0Ta8
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzzV7SswHq
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5YdSu01yj
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvhmnynVsl
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"How many instruments do you have?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzyeIxrxef
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"Nine."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeK4jX9vpl
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Shit.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlx8vyEdrV
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDz2JuLdbp
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"What does Disklavier mean?"520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡik9w4BRo5o
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"It can play by itself."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNt1coxFd63
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"Wow."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Am5FGlYRN
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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.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVe3eaatLd
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMy3WuQICMT
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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."520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAvLAwgMc0
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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. 520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRjFrNmEl2
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My final thought before falling asleep is:520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfbjvWHM9J
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How long will it take for me to remember her?520Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtDvQmescV
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