"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0V9tPyrndq
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJORyC7R7GF
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldbzYVygDC
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAB5TT6bFi
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"And... how did we meet?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgyOYG4umb
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwO9pCKxpd
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6tQc23lXa
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzukiaYsGOC
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Xh3TuXV8Y
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFk33FHQG3
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2FUhFeJjv
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro5dxKAux0
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipZAr5VwRF
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How does she do that?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡun3SkBBiDo
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJ7zHmwmrh
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"Did I ask that out loud?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Tv1KkpTvY
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8j49wPyPO
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EXlq8zTrj
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Why have we never had sex? 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSPc62pf1F
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uSmKAJhxQ
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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.)503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLvSI05wWi
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzQGCsGYig
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Two.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡer8exQaDsU
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I feel like a turd.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hik1AEuhf
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUESPLQUDo5
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBtOb3LO7c
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8DYm4HoQv
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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. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5kEAkZGlK
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ilEOtFXgY
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1KSksWP8r
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9gI4umtqf
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWj15GyyrS
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VQyoYU8j3
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8xYEgniP1
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEQBT9OkPh
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Beautiful.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhxcbSXJTO
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Special.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVe8sznHQnx
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Unique.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2fFteVbmU
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Extraordinary.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOtccMQHwU
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Kind.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHgTD3g99s
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Loving.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCuNcmM3HE
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHIC5BAK2r
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7jv58i1XH
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Evetta: Hey.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSG80cjtgo
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbpBL0lApE
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Me: Hey.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMNrLmjnKC
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4dQgesNXu
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbg6uLtOR46
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I see typing appear in her box.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguVKVw0OdK
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXodwlFA0yA
I miss u 2, btw.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlQCqv1dGu
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyomXn5uJQ
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVTzIvQGtj
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDyt1qPcP9
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ee5oaNXA0
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyoQhA924O
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaYzABNiem
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1rlbWKpmi
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGgjkeyI33
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYAL02ESKr
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGsXnGrh0p
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAawqGjLmy
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWaCqreQp8
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjftZiDhxW
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRkgPeZD0R
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"Sure," I reply.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgNsf3A7cY
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"Can I stay?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzTyZidWwo
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Stay? What does that entail?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrpkjMclPw
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEP4NLVTcc
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Or so I thought.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbGtvKC29J
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaf5JXwLpN
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"Okay."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowt3gtuCbo
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxsGaKEsuW
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7aszmkZSh
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvvEkqSUsx
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSmwZVX4mL
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzvgBvYthC
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0x8CoMbtA
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7HdkLP6am
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyp2SNVN6O
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsv839BVtQ
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZCxWCHtlr
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWEA4GoOnQ
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8P1hFGTuKf
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A few months before I met Evetta.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRFZ96oEvL
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDLnRx2qxM
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAZIHVfsFP
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She smiles.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIP5u36HlvT
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6JcnowZHE
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFAVxJyWrl
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Get to know her better.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjDG2HMFkw
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLDvmCodsU
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡab44o3TvI9
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"Why did you come here?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtH346IZ1Ba
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"I came here to work as a nurse."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KlHfXEFhj
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdckVqplzoH
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKSY9nYWUF
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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. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH79T9BTZrB
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImPV0zfdgA
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"What was it like?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnuOi4XBuR
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"Huh?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJt76qNoBM
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0EcHUJO8E
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bcuMQc4L7
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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. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBo1MQOs4Q
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGQ2ZkHixI
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She lets out a shaky laugh.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IixJZJwBf
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfleAkjXFwB
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcX2WiSZEFT
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLKmdEJ4Yr
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2DNMXWTNG
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡie9ZyD5vmG
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWkNjHmazP
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"October 21, 1992."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUChTGxExeK
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"Any siblings?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPtq5eXDYj
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"No."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUi3fpGtUW
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"Favourite food?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGwHo2Grgd
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"Vegetable lasagna."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhK31nDJOH
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"Favourite drink flavour?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunblwSejhS
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"Guava pineapple juice."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqNL3bsFJS
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"Favourite ice cream?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2oLlZg3o1
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqnrhIm6hu
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL62QkMM0Ff
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"What things do you like?" 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqT5EdntEy
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttTqCgn12a
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmG9iR6gnfk
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aQC4DvSoW
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVhRzdhOsg
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlXxDCTu2e
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"How many instruments do you have?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6vjIC01Ep
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"Nine."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEK0xCI21jb
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Shit.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bljSJxk0N
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYqIiVUHCW
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"What does Disklavier mean?"503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBQIYp4XJt
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"It can play by itself."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNcoAxlRyx
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"Wow."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMYvRKJgL1
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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.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzizP9FSlxP
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGLhTdC9g0
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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."503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYY2FOvPRd
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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. 503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVosI19rMva
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My final thought before falling asleep is:503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHplUgAWSSq
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How long will it take for me to remember her?503Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4e35vfzIvx
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