"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzDbaekYVm
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJREfmOOLy
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSkKypvf7M
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchgvMLgd16
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"And... how did we meet?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKB1r81QroT
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGSduEQLZ0
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OiSGhhhoe
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SXSCGWkFw
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtued4p7pbr
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tEV8ZCLYB
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDB14Qc3sAw
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy9FNAGPJj
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaTQehUeBK
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How does she do that?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAX9x7s9wP
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4n3WKzgNET
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"Did I ask that out loud?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23YN9ok3vw
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmlHmdAoZd
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSWl9j35sZ
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Why have we never had sex? 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiW5wKi2mA
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNZUVVTF5E
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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.)572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Q6kLKPs05
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡli1ipRfjq3
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Two.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9WKxRD3V4
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I feel like a turd.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pJPpyO48q
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA59kunLsSZ
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23Y9gesJLi
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7y87vhtgv
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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. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHQN5LEmkN
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsgvx8xxWU
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ephjhWKpL
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQedCzG7Xp
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GEYC5oNbw
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaCwvIt8su
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2eVy7gr0P
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusC8A7HgUh
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Beautiful.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryuJltCFRQ
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Special.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatD8E1qcIy
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Unique.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqInVWIldXk
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Extraordinary.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmHCx01F7o
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Kind.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBj5GF0aCe
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Loving.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpwAaxZ7Mz
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2XJCUjabq
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDK7PFzOAG
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Evetta: Hey.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzVrhqBSxZ
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ikm2mscj5
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Me: Hey.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMxDykeuBM
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1HlLb6mSw
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQW1PWaEdM3
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I see typing appear in her box.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksnGFAuEEK
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKywIE0Hb6
I miss u 2, btw.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYteSp3t1v
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1X9qx3WFA
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxeSDKKbPK
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUagBMKgfv8
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVguimjm1C7
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6yZhux3Ag
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3HCDqoY4N
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gfwgZKNVl
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDdsHkJ5nA
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIc9AKBt6NK
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQEqP3Xc2u
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PoYJliWAu
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaDYtcMHPo
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7HSXQDTzV
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz64lXbbLYl
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"Sure," I reply.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18xhdJJBRD
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"Can I stay?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xqpYF78I6
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Stay? What does that entail?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgim4Dh13j
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAx8AXDpIE
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Or so I thought.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfnGZBtionr
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOs9tMSAmvG
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"Okay."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheiNjyrBVq
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLxNFV9F7C
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAayEHEazjf
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRebRUTZOH
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX59ujsvUYe
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxkgcg4oer
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPtfwPZkWl
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmm58g8yKAs
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEOC43Z8rE
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7I1jC2DCd
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkamXtPMBC
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uSt2GlSkQ
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlC6YSBf71
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A few months before I met Evetta.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTXvbTdN5o
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoObvBcSpO
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmGTidgBj8
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She smiles.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrijMwuACR
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNR1TOmQBxS
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccg3uqfwzX
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Ask her questions.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRc3nXN1rwL
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Get to know her better.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyKzL7ggMV
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxpYAdFNt9
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnLSz1FFg6
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"Why did you come here?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItybNNffxs
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"I came here to work as a nurse."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81c9vP5bgY
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveU0Jg4sU9
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDOFFKBjIx
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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. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwtu9PytUU
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvGvf5cFGU
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"What was it like?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIoHyelWCw
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"Huh?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Pip4Tyn8S
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XkPzfEOHL
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SPvL456OO
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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. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVElK0WXNq1
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXKdQAiidr
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She lets out a shaky laugh.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YQBpov2ml
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KynDeg7wv
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3rNXIbhy4
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmOWoMVeXL
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2YWb0uDTPX
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzmPbb6QWv
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1IkCpXrxK
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"October 21, 1992."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUP15zhV7P
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"Any siblings?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cIcXQq9Fh
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"No."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDzjgjig3q
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"Favourite food?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwLNfWd0SL
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"Vegetable lasagna."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJs7QDgwne
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"Favourite drink flavour?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcebNPFSbB
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"Guava pineapple juice."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC29mOLSUk1
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"Favourite ice cream?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm7hDZkWq4
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbhoOIFvIQ
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbR3ugOi58A
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"What things do you like?" 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEnXtKpjGK
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaH8fDgGXmR
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5H5cgjcf6B
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJ377iL4sQ
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta4Pyaz8Cr
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZuPsh0LWy
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"How many instruments do you have?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvddJ8yE93
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"Nine."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJVpkgUxcm
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Shit.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKuXNlgUx6
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1R7XkviyEW
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"What does Disklavier mean?"572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFXcDjH8u9
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"It can play by itself."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IcAPjZmrd
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"Wow."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡec0h0tLNMf
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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.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqnyO2OPU9
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CaZF3bYH2
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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."572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmznTdwEug
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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. 572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApau9YMwRY
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My final thought before falling asleep is:572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4T22knBgXo
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How long will it take for me to remember her?572Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIcOvOqLoH
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