"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowYW1lRwWV
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZQIcQ7oG1
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe35QfKvGe1
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxBObC2J9j
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"And... how did we meet?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxP10FhnSQP
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbwyQxTcpc
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBxjzo8D7p
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4k2SDa7pp8
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGZuX5PFVw
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmA4BTsx1QM
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdv3HsiyJS
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zziLMr8NU
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNUNxjOEV6
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How does she do that?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zGueIXg5H
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0w3Zy61xas
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"Did I ask that out loud?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczDAAXPqwj
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfP8csntcvu
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSx7zu7sQQ
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Why have we never had sex? 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ978YB9ZXbf
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMOVqKMf6x
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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.)541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSPJ27enJy
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFKH206jQ3
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Two.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTidCBU9LM0
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I feel like a turd.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmY11z4ZBi
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHs4Q3rpHSP
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfsDuV1oJa
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaCbd5KK0u
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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. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxhfO4Fpiv
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkBktUBhT5
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEupMp2D4w
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvrdwfyESH
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8XGfd268z
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqruiB8Ixc
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***541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtnBsRoVqN
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNrHlvOZlL
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJM2OrataHJ
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Beautiful.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjyyRuKlC5
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Special.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5IbGIS9pL
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Unique.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqmoJpMuly
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Extraordinary.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTwdHjKRfN
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Kind.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdsYq0MSc1
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Loving.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgKVAWUTU0
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1MkGm9L27
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB18m1RCaMC
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Evetta: Hey.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiRxYj0IqY
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡco99y3ly5R
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Me: Hey.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrT5x54c7t
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WqD7wrHQl
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBGOyhtcDL
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I see typing appear in her box.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkMZKbuPue
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX38cAJuiom
I miss u 2, btw.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQdHepuFg9
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7m3b1oDP7
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr32Mssufnt
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvbGUBad1U
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlR67wnm0IU
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaYljzWUGQ
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8ybuVUziZ
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNxxhFIkG4
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJq7rhJRgI
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerMHEPOLTa
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jFIgbIxQd
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFA7TIhVYdJ
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7u0XgmdyE7
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9s7ojgED2F
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRIF8sB8hY
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"Sure," I reply.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZ2bjMUOzM
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"Can I stay?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOhwOkEUQ0
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Stay? What does that entail?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsU0vX7q8zR
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUGVaSqT0e
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Or so I thought.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRvjEc0SIA
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4eF7GMZ9p
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"Okay."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMuOfQPSze
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Fiq9ucBZ5
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfiZVAiP9V
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSn04LxeboX
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFK4rUt7sTp
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpc992P8v1q
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXbQsR7KaG
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPhD2SHmIu
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZgTiJgcKD
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01wJOhTyhi
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTA3iFQn1B
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLOVVbKzQp
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVkeEQBkHm
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A few months before I met Evetta.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4azXg9c7Jw
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q9rPMjULY
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSc5JD64M4
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She smiles.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZSIuZoky6
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uO891jAxl
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3CtUAA8me
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Ask her questions.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6f4Q4eqUr
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Get to know her better.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8f45Q7j3rB
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZuG1cW9Cp
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJGcOHFRoK
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"Why did you come here?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRg99asTAlP
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"I came here to work as a nurse."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Um8hXY2xS
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Oh.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcI0UxbYot
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhou8abzhA
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdFSI1kOEL
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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. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGz5xikjXd
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWIdK43mk7
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"What was it like?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90QeUAJVjo
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"Huh?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tkaVtb1Qj
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFaIuTALlj
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WP7cWF8qV
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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. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzsAcPPFUb
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4DZCMau7g
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She lets out a shaky laugh.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICjn0MiDyw
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jAGz1BHKK
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPk9Zjl3mJZ
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEtEEwLD6X
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkkt4kOCwg
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGALgzibdF
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjsjlkToDE
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"October 21, 1992."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpX3NgnVaQ
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"Any siblings?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ043wZLMztr
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"No."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTzAEtjxVS
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"Favourite food?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbbeKU9yEA
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"Vegetable lasagna."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LnxVfoA9Q
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"Favourite drink flavour?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnq7rNHoVa
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"Guava pineapple juice."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqbVYiNJQd
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"Favourite ice cream?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacGEcD1gud
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIx342Zzhk
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡas6FBGU54c
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"What things do you like?" 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSZJGMba6i
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQFg1m7FHR
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuOJ7BnUlP
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIY4RXMMjtO
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKk9QPwa6E
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQsByh7MNC
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"How many instruments do you have?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkMIGKZq3v
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"Nine."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrSItR0oB7
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Shit.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfD8cYiwOH
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KFo2nTvzz
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"What does Disklavier mean?"541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErbXiKvHGr
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"It can play by itself."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EGnFY5osh
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"Wow."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENG5bEQUxQ
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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.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9subCjceW2
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAzrQi7X4a
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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."541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07Jrh0pHGP
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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. 541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJj3Sl6nQ9
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My final thought before falling asleep is:541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvZw1UOk2I
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How long will it take for me to remember her?541Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJNoj5GEFh
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