"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbw1FiJEfBt
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveUNU6c3oO
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RSwZdvILd
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSug4rsqGb5
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"And... how did we meet?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsfxbcFkop
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnJukmzWWf
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NunsUccLj
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQLsgkfQsJ
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMLAH7yWou
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk3sJiUaKe
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVMggSAGyz
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3QhvRNaIW
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxFDIkDGT3
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How does she do that?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfykZvu6EOa
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmjjnjFfN1
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"Did I ask that out loud?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu23LPRuJDI
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXnlX18Yc6
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSCRNgSNoS
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Why have we never had sex? 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfK38KEMHd
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnidw4OIpaF
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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.)563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxouPL0xfJ
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP25FtQPA9R
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Two.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFBSXPoHxL
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I feel like a turd.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhygAIsAuDH
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIRHjWePK9
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nOkyLh3fG
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGxeMwXNRP
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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. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKclqZitQ8n
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeY5C70MVQP
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdWIG38uOM
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1u8KtxUCW
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwMy6f5Cln
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiDN165JGR
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfGE2k7gaC
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwXvVvKViY
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Beautiful.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCFPt2yec5
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Special.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbDwmMn57l
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Unique.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSaAoDGx7t
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Extraordinary.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM43g8lwcGt
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Kind.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1edfFQYWG
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Loving.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtBK1z2yfv
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQ6hjCV1lb
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGn0029v0m
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Evetta: Hey.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0q1AJWVgA
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcud7Mf8HW4
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Me: Hey.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbKuxImLEs
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkFYHnLiGc
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LeELetNQO
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I see typing appear in her box.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfTvwQdOX8
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMjHlhg4Pg
I miss u 2, btw.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlYT5LmZPY
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRfZ6KwAI3
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui2ZKQdqAQ
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJ1BdzNAI9
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5kpnRrvq3
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVWJfVGHFs
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2eTfkVIS9
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIrYEQTRvm
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83pmhFLBlO
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uVuwExDA6
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Em3eTQU2M
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnKilthPEU
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilo5ymnok7
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwL4qUtjUB5
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBUzZY1lxV
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"Sure," I reply.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJsS8iqJWx
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"Can I stay?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3tpsz3gK6
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Stay? What does that entail?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJPkaVo9jY
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn04aGARDE
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Or so I thought.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd560qBIZUz
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXzO4WcLKV
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"Okay."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnKpeNhaDW
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy93DkMgcUt
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPZbWG0m76
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLqYGP9et8
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2meXd2a0m
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFqOIXDiuG
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pRXm4rZc2
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlRy8s5esg
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMzcrEn8ib
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bfqsRAFjg
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5FMoAH4G0
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBgoqDsJuO
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOG0lMGL3hh
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A few months before I met Evetta.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZDFybaZ50
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxzHZYGxRY
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEAVnUFC10
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She smiles.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6eTB3s5QU
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofWl1rxWKL
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Oe1yxyY3y
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Ask her questions.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjotbdBLMT
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Get to know her better.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwW1rC8vNk
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BCUgjQxke
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ki7g5mDwR
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"Why did you come here?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOM1A1cbnHc
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"I came here to work as a nurse."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMARYmiIM1D
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Oh.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8neO0xHEa
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnNhP83YlX
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrS9coRlpUu
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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. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgLPJ3X2xe
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1iOjnjsKY
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"What was it like?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAada5bjOnK
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"Huh?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifTRBTYFDl
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTYkVfdPEz
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItvNwNAdnR
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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. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0AV3QwiEx
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FY563fC28
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She lets out a shaky laugh.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ737dDIlWBR
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZL183P2xZ
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIjvjEDQvU
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5A0UoHbd2g
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhURlajsFpj
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6qCHJ18sB
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfuDGYxyEH
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"October 21, 1992."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2prhrOTFmZ
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"Any siblings?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGBFxQ2XTR
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"No."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNaIBG2m0Y
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"Favourite food?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXHWe4ot6h
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"Vegetable lasagna."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzygPQhqq9N
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"Favourite drink flavour?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGx8y77LDB
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"Guava pineapple juice."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9eBClcuKz
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"Favourite ice cream?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniBKzm5H9m
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2EIAdPZuT
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgf6Cw42Pq
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"What things do you like?" 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0k9t52xfY
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdlfN3BtcS
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPzbiNSeZB
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtdZzH7orn
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXkPiCjrmW
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPni9B8QBc
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"How many instruments do you have?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSA6GIVUtZ4
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"Nine."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZLtIi1S8N
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Shit.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqd5x8wjEf
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBK2jeT6b9
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"What does Disklavier mean?"563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7P9OaIDwG8
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"It can play by itself."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUyQoU5PHX
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"Wow."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENx9S0RBl5
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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.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbNTh0oa49
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVoUDaIfP1
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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."563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUCX6mNGMy
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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. 563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVs6tQv4K3X
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My final thought before falling asleep is:563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRX1nuzDKnr
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How long will it take for me to remember her?563Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbI5vDDNYBD
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