"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1XistAkxv
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEGHUxYd9h
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cZbv9CThI
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRC04y0RFt
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"And... how did we meet?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxlZ0eCqgy
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpT6y030htp
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqGhxmzn3w
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF5MaMh7tP
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HNzQaggjl
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmfMWtBNbG
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7j11AOAz0O
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCcb7GAvVT
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjOxU2sOSm
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How does she do that?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgmqYEm4cH
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡop0HgpkniE
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"Did I ask that out loud?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFj3AGGz8FT
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eUsi1M1kj
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4V5sS16Jhn
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Why have we never had sex? 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSZWpSCYbb
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6q8P6kIIwF
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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.)580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSX5Jbxr1mR
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIypt5vDXm
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Two.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSIgr90vYy
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I feel like a turd.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqzOvXwyM7
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIpG9JJpxx
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzhNVZ1kkt
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz6SH9tcdJ
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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. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRd7V4eHbq
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlsOp8cO0p
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpt9BOkXt0G
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzgIGonCT9
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPGNLIthmN
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJx1RvN3dyQ
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUohtsJutL
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyX1nknkOu
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Beautiful.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyFsnelkoL
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Special.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4N0Cmiq2r
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Unique.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkMUvzOwoh
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Extraordinary.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1tCExBAyO
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Kind.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzRIkYBCYt
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Loving.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9HCM41qxa
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8vzSC3Tgq
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3c25bue8iD
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Evetta: Hey.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZeco15CrNL
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjW1mfxWNN
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Me: Hey.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bp1fD2tAL
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIrtlWOiQG
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aCcYdoImn
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I see typing appear in her box.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJjTa5EBL0
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLfr2sOpac
I miss u 2, btw.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaXj389Y6j
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrw4e0p116
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUeIU8VK5S
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr78NufTPhY
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykXFN9DiMF
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRPmaRstRO
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBt7rtHKe7a
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PT2zF93Kt
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQyBllg42n
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡML8PuDWSAe
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro9dW9BXeL
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8NYRib0dk
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4unRXFgSI
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLufQoManJu
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3kO1oYKzB
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"Sure," I reply.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7hJefx6yh
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"Can I stay?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOFgoi6GLr
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Stay? What does that entail?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1IYCIj1Kw
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGEXPg75dG
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Or so I thought.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OSAloMhPC
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMzJ121EsX
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"Okay."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXsSTf57Fw
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNfH2ZyffT
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jz9fnAppR
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rE1Y0rJaq
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3thxFWTgN
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwkJRDbeYs
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb9DRoeLGp
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrp5b7gm51g
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfNqGuoxlh
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4FX2em11h
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1cJeu9enU
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ5PGO3juB
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Op49MNMK0
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A few months before I met Evetta.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86yZ6hFlC5
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsXc3NZRwk
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqMQiTr0o6
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She smiles.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoU7mrkZnbe
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ghoDTY9uD
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0zRs8iDxX
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Ask her questions.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5LUAgN7KO
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Get to know her better.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNCjPlEMoc
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7Iz0p7zqN
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswqbM8xqGz
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"Why did you come here?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4PRuEnwUu
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"I came here to work as a nurse."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEyFYifG3U
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Oh.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBYN3yytgE
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza3wqT4sVr
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5aL9UUA1G
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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. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVZ7Ako73P
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRHo9Bbc35
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"What was it like?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTInp7cj1RT
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"Huh?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzmPH9PjM4
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbms4lPTw9
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRV397HMax
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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. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklqXQb4uC8
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7I0Unz4n5l
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She lets out a shaky laugh.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3AWgYVIAh
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zLb96kxRM
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgpjKmXF4V
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCWrMZKhEy
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbE52uLJiT
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5xAzrfZlF
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGI3Ult2yH
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"October 21, 1992."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7KQRF6qsn
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"Any siblings?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIY2AXKr5li
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"No."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTDf1TgCor
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"Favourite food?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLDdz2o0vE
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"Vegetable lasagna."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3aUgdjKrf
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"Favourite drink flavour?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSM3ETcllA
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"Guava pineapple juice."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJnvObOAcB
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"Favourite ice cream?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUOfX6PPvq
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TCJviX86r
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvajrPQIy68
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"What things do you like?" 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUNyQZkKd7
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAgdSIjJoy
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEsytak8Dq
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStalGQhJPT
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxJ3p98Al8
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFrG2H0zyt
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"How many instruments do you have?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBCRZt9ybp
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"Nine."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvilzlgBiNr
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Shit.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRcNjxlX16
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OKNGHtjib
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"What does Disklavier mean?"580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKOg9UzXjJ
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"It can play by itself."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpLsqTapgg
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"Wow."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00XkQrMQJc
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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.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9a1o4lQWum
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfAFzbtqg8
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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."580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfVesnYwxh
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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. 580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsN82bz0Iko
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My final thought before falling asleep is:580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zAZxTY0Zh
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How long will it take for me to remember her?580Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUj7YVws1f
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