"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEV1x1mgyp
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RBz2pjZ1D
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWRN15Slqr
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVSQ7zNVp0
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"And... how did we meet?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXNr5zwqZy
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7Q1LJUX9P
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdViu4wHhW
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSa23Zidj7j
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRkKvmp774
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmugAYvlYI
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEREO0IsiuQ
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHEYDk0427
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjcJ2vQm9k
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How does she do that?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0MIySeqTa
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HZmd0DmDS
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"Did I ask that out loud?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27iUXVhnSZ
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3YABAjkHi
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmp5307Cj5o
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Why have we never had sex? 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtU3Mzwk9LZ
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtp8Dxp3ecI
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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.)549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1O4JOON3LR
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TaQGpfYx7
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Two.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBoqjy1BDK
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I feel like a turd.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobxZUlbIBC
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZ2qRPR5lE
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqo2WCpaGS
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn9HX9e7hv
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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. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYomW7Y3yp
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe36jMYqJlF
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZjiuAE6HI
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpq63T2PbNV
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjH3QxOgEOL
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFYCClpmSS
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GgK6wdNYe
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEOf6WhsOX
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Beautiful.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7unOJuzhl
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Special.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wMue5Ca2W
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Unique.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxigW4MT8Oa
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Extraordinary.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmu2WEf4gr1
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Kind.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTK4aSzFP39
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Loving.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOQ51SWZ1m
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLnI9d4dH0
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawxKZJvTgf
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Evetta: Hey.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndeOgaYwsg
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdxIjuhOWc
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Me: Hey.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyI4VXDYQ2
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNTJeIMY2e
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwp6XuknczA
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I see typing appear in her box.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUrnbRlcdJ
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdeq0DdFZE
I miss u 2, btw.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZ1G8HmIEa
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7s6VMBJ3ne
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTWlTgfJzC
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKazwu0xRTH
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UAp2nqWGc
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwwAJiFXpr
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yNkWlwcHT
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oAUaEDC9J
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBO3Y05TpM2
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5aPlQezI5
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZufmwc3w9b
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmxw9dULdi
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZQddWzkrc
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyf404bk21
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkSG7uafmu
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"Sure," I reply.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisZ8XRUXJF
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"Can I stay?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsxzeI0AHj
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Stay? What does that entail?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDgI5EtWtH
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVphUPZGG6
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Or so I thought.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZVHlgJ9XX
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG07fsDYT5
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"Okay."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgmExHyyem
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6f2pVhydz
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBYixNPi7z
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtPanBuTGY
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjKvVgBP2s
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7j5liItBaU
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2yUyQCqka
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkclFba4Yq
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzSH5EUCpi
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZFsuCBnIH
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKtymndakh
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzT4fHHe3B
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wngDxtFmx
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A few months before I met Evetta.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta3WFXQH1a
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy06S7wUjLc
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNWs8xJ8b1
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She smiles.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPmQd38GCT
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxoSV6Wnnt
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbR1TfQcgn
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Ask her questions.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhPBGsUmFo
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Get to know her better.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsscoo641U
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcNlB2rxbr
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsw9rz9dcJ2
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"Why did you come here?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1LzNqJ2fA
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"I came here to work as a nurse."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazlV1C0X3H
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Oh.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoz0SUjyS2
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4E8kldJ3mf
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4uhLke8JL
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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. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFnbT9UrXx
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGbI70ZjYH
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"What was it like?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZn8ZhzUE4
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"Huh?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRRv2DOI0K
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBqjD9ltBy
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNoDLu6mGg
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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. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tWVMRCEWW
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLXcYUHpIF
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She lets out a shaky laugh.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKSsIvD9MK
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZxEPC5Xvt
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZtTQiUFA7
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjbdX5Havi
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoagKh3ECsi
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EAu2CF7YS
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ofyo1ZF7S
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"October 21, 1992."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAlDqtf3wk
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"Any siblings?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO2moI4oQB
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"No."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7nFimhz2f
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"Favourite food?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNH2G52mBL
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"Vegetable lasagna."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQMdpstOqf
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"Favourite drink flavour?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gXmH8W5Wz
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"Guava pineapple juice."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEHueX35M4
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"Favourite ice cream?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtg3nM1dxz
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5OCOGWsbr
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSOBKFR1qs
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"What things do you like?" 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmDTQUcaGT
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaULFuoEQO
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptuBovTM3E
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXwlacCYfc
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfkeXwNu7S
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChGwtGXzyC
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"How many instruments do you have?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavESvmF96U
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"Nine."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGIPTJIpJG
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Shit.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibecjkKVZn
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ca7XqNLXy
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"What does Disklavier mean?"549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6dk9KrArW
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"It can play by itself."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDBANbp3Dc
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"Wow."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtG45KVxRFC
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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.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXh3UffGivq
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YB5BIFIeS
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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."549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGdXSsJ4Jq
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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. 549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XJgWi9ArF
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My final thought before falling asleep is:549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgNwzOlwvN
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How long will it take for me to remember her?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEex0R98wBR
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