"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzml8WkaYp8
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEo2bsoMsg
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55Bcixj494
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuubqd4pmZU
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"And... how did we meet?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9ensswald
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKElHcnxZu
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KppSR5dh6
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLC9gpNQ3z
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbf0ZUJbZC3
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWMKBcR9Le
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQNpsli2df
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL4hPjKQHJ
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiJlngNaLN
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How does she do that?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0lKrLkPp4
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrulaIIPB8o
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"Did I ask that out loud?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkcH8h1TA6
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MwzFla3ka
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcq6LzdF2S
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Why have we never had sex? 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3QKrI7O4i
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0RfOzXGGF
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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.)570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavw6H32hec
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJkCsOl67g
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Two.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjMq03tlGp
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I feel like a turd.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIlG31kCwf
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaY6URyZV7i
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBckVGfKsbk
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqROQaz9eL
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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. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJ8Vs5yZKi
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqx9ESGgfM
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPtyLLs5uB
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUAxNg43fu
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzH66XTggPw
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLju93kPYw
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***570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tuW4lItzR
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JWEkOZXRu
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMk4iaa45x
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Beautiful.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ936M53dDVn
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Special.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNHFb34jDM
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Unique.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WBbpNFiiM
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Extraordinary.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wnIH3XONY
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Kind.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdj52UXyhjO
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Loving.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpcY6848XJ
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSE9Hs2K3KX
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY53ebrbvIc
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Evetta: Hey.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zryB51O0g
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu52IEocSms
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Me: Hey.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4s9GmrJjz
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibzD5JulNd
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpein30BtG
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I see typing appear in her box.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmc5So2IZ57
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdZNLW6Qtn
I miss u 2, btw.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBzGuko7n2
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLJRAdz8E1
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkVY5vK1B0
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSHu3SBlAE
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqLSSDFrDZ
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyr0WsUlTFK
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsps40aKpnp
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaRkkVlSzj
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRXFekMeJH
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNjYczJJ1d
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmsBF8O5j6
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡju5KrMwdw1
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaNYjYIzUl
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAo02sUH9l
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7OT4iejKf
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"Sure," I reply.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHC27s1gOCl
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"Can I stay?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOT1aj1TZ2
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Stay? What does that entail?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVGS8iODyA
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBHtGVXAnr
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Or so I thought.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJbPKs3MwU
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCD4wZhCXbC
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"Okay."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9ExI0JI5r
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2guC0weqVq
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0IZWurVp1
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lvsUEXKQL
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIEJSdwLLQ
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJZ8ys4RjM
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzX14KGhoo
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgefG2fUfi
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyH2uILN9B
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ajKCGktEB
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgUbe1g8ql
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4nL42aP29
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRxiMBhyQV
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A few months before I met Evetta.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTsFoYNH56
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBG9yKmYHC7
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iwBLtQBki
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She smiles.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpbGzm1Gvz
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGe3QR59M7n
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3V9lQ9I09
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Ask her questions.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6BgBWCxS0
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Get to know her better.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3B5dnjtKvM
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswkPVPWlLb
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2FAshtFmv
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"Why did you come here?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UkCdisoha
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"I came here to work as a nurse."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRgBlTs61K
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Oh.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5W7ACpZsFa
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvDBr3u3e0
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8a34Ybab5F
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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. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp893wAs1rp
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4rSsQcoWa
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"What was it like?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWWzlvCUJC
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"Huh?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeyThM3yzD
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1zbppMuzH
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuTEbMTJVB
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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. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qmLQRof7s
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEaHRCjflJ
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She lets out a shaky laugh.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuWsQAvbiz
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDt5VmN4gUX
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡob7OuVkM34
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOeTfGzCg1
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgjQCazrL1
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYSSGysYJq
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqjQUnEKz7
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"October 21, 1992."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLEK7HcQNJ
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"Any siblings?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnI84kL9hZ
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"No."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS3vLxOYC2
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"Favourite food?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmruWb8gLjw
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"Vegetable lasagna."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rzmzeZ5bO
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"Favourite drink flavour?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDVewRtJCN
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"Guava pineapple juice."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYa0L8apX3y
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"Favourite ice cream?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbOTQ5j2i8
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VS5k78oAo
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIxaLujSRx
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"What things do you like?" 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jceSwtEhY
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXds7sMyVqP
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUEPSamhtF
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxh0VkqejEv
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7C0vXAKegC
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPpliFQuLg
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"How many instruments do you have?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTTzJfG3mP
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"Nine."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkebVKjsOp
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Shit.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLaTKmOnup
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAdxZiqa0c
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"What does Disklavier mean?"570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmFcfH8Qrz
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"It can play by itself."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUy3ZPLiU0
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"Wow."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXg7PcEX88
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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.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzEXkKYN3I
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5zP0FqozH
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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."570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSn3wL8wTi
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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. 570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeylm8P1ji
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My final thought before falling asleep is:570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fitfzzaOJ
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How long will it take for me to remember her?570Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoYOWFfM51
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