"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55FCK8nVoq
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnt0EhbitNX
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlNfIiV2oS
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EQgimMwTQ
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"And... how did we meet?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcWLniQvfm
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZa0GVgVscC
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHPLnWc7Oh
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48HUwjqIfC
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDe2mFVINDy
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwO7nXHLJu5
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOvKI3ZHyi
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOQkjqZDOL
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ600XexOrYg
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How does she do that?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9eVXrgi9c
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDfbHCE6B6
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"Did I ask that out loud?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFMY6xKfob
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTidt2aH6Dj
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqE6n7z9udD
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Why have we never had sex? 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaCRDxYNxC
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRJ6K67tqR
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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.)585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46UTfUvG7u
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49PuBjPu6w
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Two.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuwytQ30wd
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I feel like a turd.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvvu7NOkJP
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdECWBTITm6
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXEQ6VT06J
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdce5yeh1Z
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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. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjSdkCYT3k
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yhEseA4nx
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlM1XOwGqJ
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡneXpBn7zjX
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfXTcII5Yc
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKF0M0ytTcZ
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡje2IDgglJq
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyIyT0RFSD
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Beautiful.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jzoECQEQ6
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Special.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nYPj1bjhY
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Unique.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYVfOJva5C
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Extraordinary.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzAyit9Cyu
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Kind.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGhpLXptUP
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Loving.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmRYmDCvcn
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90WDuGPP9i
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdey0cRM2p
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Evetta: Hey.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLmxT8nkdO
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZnIJqvQhS
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Me: Hey.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJ5UGh1UgY
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLVZ2zvBHH
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cxGEJ9aW1
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I see typing appear in her box.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ALQdahbWU
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsLNAb59hY
I miss u 2, btw.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZQajzJHiv
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKobSyQxmn7
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCN4qKVUva
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sYM3NSZcU
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGGNax8Bug
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5fpmo4JIG
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ur9Gt8dKM
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2U4BU3G24D
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3Gknzd64L
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPhLjkpL0B
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvEYYZQmFh
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoa0ResMGub
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xBPTyRIGl
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqD7RaaHs5v
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9rNjk8i3v
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"Sure," I reply.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwK3oMRXdib
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"Can I stay?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIF3dNLsdUa
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Stay? What does that entail?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAPUtM0N2Y
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtrBnWdM3P
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Or so I thought.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq4DjNNiK5
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsP0WCUXo9
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"Okay."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kveI4Dp2w
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8N0Xcrglix
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWbU2tvK88
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjF6AdGKEax
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YleTQvVdi
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrM7cl3jtRw
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64ydhKfIQv
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJc8NsLggoB
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhg2R1u5lkO
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp26nx54FX
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlnxCUR9p0
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jdAMgwvXM
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c9kEleVQB
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A few months before I met Evetta.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8VOF271bW
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70L01Gp8F0
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3SUEqIzRP
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She smiles.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHdYfM2K83
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZYpgwxEFu
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTFvR2ETUv
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Ask her questions.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85gQxKq27H
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Get to know her better.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZkS9yxrph
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNswyJMJgV0
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3c5fS4uujB
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"Why did you come here?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qOeUFWMeR
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"I came here to work as a nurse."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7i6V4b8Z4
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOQyhsIawW
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszynd15UHH
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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. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurTGdYQtmL
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmRAvn1PRb
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"What was it like?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGp6caLYAL
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"Huh?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegC3m1NM24
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2miDikrVn
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMU3j6pI60
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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. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHH25qoUgH
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrTjmP6LKl
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She lets out a shaky laugh.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMatRDp6Dp
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iuMHvTb4G
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoS80npfia
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygr5d8RaOB
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZaoXtGCGF
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0nV59FpCv
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgC2GedYSI
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"October 21, 1992."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6RqqFeaIB
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"Any siblings?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbnhtQSmCd
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"No."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qgkqSGPF7
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"Favourite food?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxVTj4weev
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"Vegetable lasagna."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5Ostx2TwN
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"Favourite drink flavour?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiksTmsWlT
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"Guava pineapple juice."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OO0UtYfYe
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"Favourite ice cream?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydHZoo0CG6
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQhsbpsbhx
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjlcEsB4IF
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"What things do you like?" 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAgnqTS8Iq
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwoKcQ2Aun
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWL5X1YqwSr
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfYwSTyHD3
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzSbsknIGI
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpM69jl9MR
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"How many instruments do you have?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdZQMtkVKg
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"Nine."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2m2cOxNjj5
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Shit.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAODKCMVsR
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzVPbQBnqd
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"What does Disklavier mean?"585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkq9pLIuob
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"It can play by itself."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zHDGoNcuJ
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"Wow."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1Aa63EOPA
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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.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVbSofvqfB
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpd0o9sJ9fj
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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."585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05weiwpdAE
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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. 585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvwq9fLqHw
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My final thought before falling asleep is:585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEzjtlJeD6
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How long will it take for me to remember her?585Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjx5mzjVP0W
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