"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAHVs6lbqYBo
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.408Please respect copyright.PENANA0gEGUwUiue
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAMq6xKxEmmy
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZoqCOR3Zl
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"And... how did we meet?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAWnE0reDe31
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.408Please respect copyright.PENANAUZZukCBwIq
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."408Please respect copyright.PENANAoW3S0jYGHu
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAmyn6b8BxwZ
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAKfGqtvfG4O
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?408Please respect copyright.PENANA2wqST9kQMf
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.408Please respect copyright.PENANA5POr0K3LoY
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."408Please respect copyright.PENANAkbWeqqUAfz
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAAY09t3gLCS
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How does she do that?408Please respect copyright.PENANAFmuyCP2bce
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAvDelrxh4Nu
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"Did I ask that out loud?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAe31elugCNA
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."408Please respect copyright.PENANAGq4Qe4vhh4
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.408Please respect copyright.PENANAvMBHwjDket
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Why have we never had sex? 408Please respect copyright.PENANA3gt674edJj
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?408Please respect copyright.PENANA4CvozUtvDz
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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.)408Please respect copyright.PENANAjw6V6y8sec
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.408Please respect copyright.PENANAVRQpKphY57
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Two.408Please respect copyright.PENANAt50tXkXVju
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I feel like a turd.408Please respect copyright.PENANAP9hYH4XExn
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.408Please respect copyright.PENANAqRtAcjxBSo
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.408Please respect copyright.PENANADJjTR2rTrL
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAmIqik4mphY
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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. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAGhFU1JuMDa
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.408Please respect copyright.PENANAf0WX6VyMIE
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANA5env4m1Q7y
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.408Please respect copyright.PENANARTDGO76fce
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?408Please respect copyright.PENANAe8x8VUcD0c
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."408Please respect copyright.PENANATMVbrUl3Io
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAdvtIwmm6dP
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAAB2wrnv19W
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Beautiful.408Please respect copyright.PENANASnoym7WghJ
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Special.408Please respect copyright.PENANAJoQshmDq5d
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Unique.408Please respect copyright.PENANA3HCwNDBKwa
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Extraordinary.408Please respect copyright.PENANAnGZ5OKLVtl
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Kind.408Please respect copyright.PENANAFdHJjD4nsR
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Loving.408Please respect copyright.PENANAO1gO3h4pwF
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.408Please respect copyright.PENANAOtu8Q75oK2
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAN44ehhQzfv
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Evetta: Hey.408Please respect copyright.PENANAcvYSRN1lJ8
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.408Please respect copyright.PENANAWjeYqujUf5
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Me: Hey.408Please respect copyright.PENANAL2hj64rHZn
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.408Please respect copyright.PENANA3EpmY2sDuT
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.408Please respect copyright.PENANAII9t7dTPv3
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I see typing appear in her box.408Please respect copyright.PENANAqWxtBhiPhL
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.408Please respect copyright.PENANADgFLUexdeW
I miss u 2, btw.408Please respect copyright.PENANAzZ7CekNp0t
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.408Please respect copyright.PENANAy5pO1trN6Q
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.408Please respect copyright.PENANAJKSdXYvb1O
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAeaVftmE6Y5
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.408Please respect copyright.PENANArPprsBwUWo
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAUYsEVCwp0U
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.408Please respect copyright.PENANAhzAaSFHv06
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.408Please respect copyright.PENANAcYsrl3Vnpi
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?408Please respect copyright.PENANAhscNLdlZeB
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAce4vx93cDR
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAgTOFViyMyi
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."408Please respect copyright.PENANAiOnIvtWiGh
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.408Please respect copyright.PENANA3hOf3WrP25
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.408Please respect copyright.PENANAp5XMp0L3Iq
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"408Please respect copyright.PENANA40Lg7TeeAF
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"Sure," I reply.408Please respect copyright.PENANAPpPneZv0LO
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"Can I stay?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAubVRsSXnKS
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Stay? What does that entail?408Please respect copyright.PENANA03ajWTA0em
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.408Please respect copyright.PENANAMitnFMlRlj
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Or so I thought.408Please respect copyright.PENANAUOhzdDVaat
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.408Please respect copyright.PENANAeU5B8Gw58t
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"Okay."408Please respect copyright.PENANAhQY5Tsz66k
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANA7GezhLu64x
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.408Please respect copyright.PENANA595bYBhWpi
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.408Please respect copyright.PENANAJlBG1grTrq
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."408Please respect copyright.PENANAdNMYnaxKEW
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.408Please respect copyright.PENANAoPZHUkCPOZ
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."408Please respect copyright.PENANA22ndBiVJlW
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.408Please respect copyright.PENANAcnR5kt5oac
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAPh6xlwfloB
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAyqlRMiMso6
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."408Please respect copyright.PENANAgiY9kI9kdH
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAVDmGdAx9UY
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANARuLKPewiRg
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A few months before I met Evetta.408Please respect copyright.PENANAHDvL5QisRw
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.408Please respect copyright.PENANAlJniigpKMi
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."408Please respect copyright.PENANAuNKvbj2uYn
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She smiles.408Please respect copyright.PENANAzhlo039gB8
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."408Please respect copyright.PENANAvzNCU0syBr
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAWY1BeEq6x5
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Ask her questions.408Please respect copyright.PENANAy024hZLZnc
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Get to know her better.408Please respect copyright.PENANAt2dI4k8Zz0
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."408Please respect copyright.PENANADaIY1DdVsx
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.408Please respect copyright.PENANAcWxQa1Pwda
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"Why did you come here?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAm1zkYLLW8L
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"I came here to work as a nurse."408Please respect copyright.PENANA87vLamaXiq
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Oh.408Please respect copyright.PENANA17mzj0GcdJ
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.408Please respect copyright.PENANAotWjgHXq1p
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAfvV1YZVhgd
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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. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAAniQaxqxR3
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAa8RLEjKbXq
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"What was it like?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAPcX3HVQmU1
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"Huh?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAu1kIabt8Lu
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."408Please respect copyright.PENANAMAmaIJphyD
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.408Please respect copyright.PENANAdCMq2QHpLh
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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. 408Please respect copyright.PENANA3WK0rIoDgb
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAR5qDQFdjdS
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She lets out a shaky laugh.408Please respect copyright.PENANAmwYgmadbKt
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANApcXmBjompF
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.408Please respect copyright.PENANAMvio3MHIXn
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAQVDYgSI5bi
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."408Please respect copyright.PENANAQf48mrVfnX
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.408Please respect copyright.PENANAUI43uOSKYj
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.408Please respect copyright.PENANAVQxQYoL2mj
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"October 21, 1992."408Please respect copyright.PENANAu6sBAqsJYC
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"Any siblings?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAViXSEsrlGX
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"No."408Please respect copyright.PENANAV21LnrUtKO
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"Favourite food?"408Please respect copyright.PENANA8nobYP8t8H
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"Vegetable lasagna."408Please respect copyright.PENANAfDcNu7CRBa
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"Favourite drink flavour?"408Please respect copyright.PENANANFhP8hDJuA
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"Guava pineapple juice."408Please respect copyright.PENANAVUk6v8Ukkb
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"Favourite ice cream?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAVPyojRa3Q8
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."408Please respect copyright.PENANAweW44D95Z7
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAFIpvOX9Q6a
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"What things do you like?" 408Please respect copyright.PENANA43knlZx6q7
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANA26yRPeHhdL
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.408Please respect copyright.PENANAyePd7SegeA
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."408Please respect copyright.PENANALvWmAtL5xH
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.408Please respect copyright.PENANAh3EK96vp9U
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAhrzmP9xsVh
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"How many instruments do you have?"408Please respect copyright.PENANA9hlak6HYpC
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"Nine."408Please respect copyright.PENANAb6vtPPKsHX
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Shit.408Please respect copyright.PENANApv1xe4gLt3
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANAEDwx3wtf7W
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"What does Disklavier mean?"408Please respect copyright.PENANAZAO19XjNbZ
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"It can play by itself."408Please respect copyright.PENANAQffmLvEcWT
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"Wow."408Please respect copyright.PENANA1A4uw95Wr8
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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.408Please respect copyright.PENANAaMfsDhM4bS
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.408Please respect copyright.PENANAlKoATKlmxj
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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."408Please respect copyright.PENANALj4Uw8ltVK
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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. 408Please respect copyright.PENANAeDFG18ybHw
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My final thought before falling asleep is:408Please respect copyright.PENANAJZ121uSVz0
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How long will it take for me to remember her?408Please respect copyright.PENANAtPh3oKI8iB
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