"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV9FAODekP
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ux5kRkfA7
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNG4OZG1BMz
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUaSdrmm0s
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"And... how did we meet?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9c8Q9HWoOB
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCo4VFI4cz
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxUCHPoNvw
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIQRRSLKbJ
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysCjTYklOE
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iP9WJW0Wm
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRmwz1SqTo
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4WYR3GTCO
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdegOdQwF0b
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How does she do that?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWL3mvfmyqX
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDTrwTN3Xp
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"Did I ask that out loud?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIZI0sV35D
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp46dyL2oTf
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0O8nj7DkZ
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Why have we never had sex? 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQIXIVIPxJ
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4nxBhpEY4
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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.)546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkq0Ex45Rlk
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTB7R5JSDb
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Two.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuXeWPQ27S
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I feel like a turd.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcw0DH3hNtm
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVmreWM6LB
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21ejnDvPgC
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9IkO1prWp
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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. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEPEoRRp4t
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCLHAmcEZB
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsg6DQcseG8
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpdKVbbiOZ
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eV3TLopuh
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BTdBh6WfH
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiysBAQm0gB
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXBOgrC2us
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Beautiful.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUs43lbzv4
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Special.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5LeiJVBzg
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Unique.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdI3M03a6h
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Extraordinary.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuJUdBnxZV
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Kind.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3aK5ukIw13
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Loving.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9JLAG4nnz
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblVmee7WJy
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5QNiu26UI
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Evetta: Hey.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLirGlcbLxt
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAem1iSQls
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Me: Hey.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOjGDRzbvH
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ke795cuDr
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdR1i3Akxm
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I see typing appear in her box.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7LtV3fNKd
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfRokUOGAK
I miss u 2, btw.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNFNqfplhU
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2H9Qa0DOXD
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkp9PQEmPLx
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ParBZEHvi
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Mh2EG2C1J
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSU1UpNWjZ
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVLI5fgsZy
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwei4SvYca
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSqBotLGPf
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEiXsZ08AH
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydjl71KDvz
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTYEPfGcYU
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnoI7eikos
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvYDyzWeWO
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHWK8Yl2Ir
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"Sure," I reply.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFJGXcJHCO
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"Can I stay?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHxbR3CoWr
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Stay? What does that entail?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqNRNqIsLO
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3g203nn1d1
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Or so I thought.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pU7EiwKNj
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRpRNmkMHV
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"Okay."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vIGCWIfMR
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxMW7jNIt7
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8RYAmkv8F
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTG93EbsZUm
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcP7JgNb6o
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNZ3lXk5r9
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWg5LWjegEs
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxDUMC10yv
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapAn1uAigt
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzrwGcnHwQ
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSXOA5e7d6
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdDk78HkDG
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxrOWzGqaI
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A few months before I met Evetta.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70B3BQ8i48
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tCeJDuXIo
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLx0KW1lDs
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She smiles.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhK9MxsVvdP
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0TlwMXpAv
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdRU68cRR8
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Ask her questions.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJ9EsriJ2G
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Get to know her better.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG33J0bQV9d
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZV7Ue0PdTC
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWaaVf3w1T
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"Why did you come here?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOHfuoQne9
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"I came here to work as a nurse."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdh7XW5ubDm
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Oh.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MkUCIeUUa
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MSwCTBmTD
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjjX1B9FSr
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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. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqkRvHxAj7
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66zr2KvGHx
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"What was it like?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDKSSOtE7E
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"Huh?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aC5jY78MN
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcqkjoCPxP
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡci4gbZtGyg
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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. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhFMnkZqo5
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVySZbDkdSM
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She lets out a shaky laugh.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GYvbsEwnY
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdzaHbLPem
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHEZYnVZNN
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplo0DEx7d0
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBebXyGlKL
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOyLjM2b9k
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUkPIsaFhl
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"October 21, 1992."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0P1VHzoMo
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"Any siblings?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSxTtWzNKW
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"No."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Wq3OevZJi
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"Favourite food?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Q6ySiD1TG
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"Vegetable lasagna."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelTxXrYmJu
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"Favourite drink flavour?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1ldiubury
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"Guava pineapple juice."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfS4uWjsBZ
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"Favourite ice cream?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxirtY43vyy
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ384yZIlyOu
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1thA4YhIB
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"What things do you like?" 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta19nByW4X
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IfCuYmCBE
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIGLPHCW2u
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTaIgaaDOcD
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJvlkIxTLD
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FRrK8qIjQ
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"How many instruments do you have?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZ2iVlumSg
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"Nine."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxW84iaZs0
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Shit.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHesCdSEaw
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgMBCujKh5
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"What does Disklavier mean?"546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGI5I2t742
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"It can play by itself."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6d7CXeMepZ
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"Wow."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQJPS0gtat
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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.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUC5Lqi0ZOx
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsNIryunNS
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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."546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJDuizt0GK
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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. 546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOwcNG6gv3
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My final thought before falling asleep is:546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgG7J0C9k4
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How long will it take for me to remember her?546Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvp7XZ4Qe9z
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