"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvBKi5seKT
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XRVRfrDhk
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHMyEsCNWm
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWo224t5k9V
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"And... how did we meet?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpAVO8kpMI
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2taVg3AJn6
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gcjtDEfGC
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrKjHBU97A
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ajht0Zatv
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDSfu18WMs
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKYBgBLXg3
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfMCCctDBw
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7T8ges4boa
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How does she do that?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFyCptCiYb
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHV8lBG9MC
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"Did I ask that out loud?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNimAWW5Dw
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWbvUVN1yH
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDFN059kxt
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Why have we never had sex? 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhak4tB0G4
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3My86bn3mJ
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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.)548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScoXzURL2F
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Vu04UDg1u
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Two.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXGOuBTL4k
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I feel like a turd.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPPkZTzkNN
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaEKiuOSDC
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkUr0wBDgi
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIXd7ogcsm
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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. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KLF4Q4YX5
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2l3iv2wZi
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOo925tn2A3
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4cwRAV2V6
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvZYX7pIRF
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmo0MFVJfi
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrj8p9bzYrK
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIblnA9iaH
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Beautiful.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CmF5arhfx
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Special.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWd8HQGsMoN
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Unique.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzMNm3HmFk
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Extraordinary.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPotHJO4NF
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Kind.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOStOeylJe
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Loving.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkPEGpMatt
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKAEVqyjY9
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfZ3XJXf16
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Evetta: Hey.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4pi3Efp41
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQLMvqfXWR
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Me: Hey.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2PPfbBfN7
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUCWLL4cP0
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDNChD5mFG
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I see typing appear in her box.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTB6xx05WZ
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCnChYYIPf
I miss u 2, btw.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr35Zbhifc8
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDYCj1yxGK
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYboGCAOtSj
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV08brq73vD
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrrpniDvew
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBFbFZftqA
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwQCeBM6S8
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcEU89iNxP
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyD05oABbxE
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDZkJOhJ3E
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVeJME7UZu
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXngl7wqjp
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCpNeH4kkp
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVqRYtgRS9
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1nc5MNQ6W
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"Sure," I reply.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GW51jtjXS
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"Can I stay?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboRFUr0eUN
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Stay? What does that entail?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwBdHQstAO
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkFg7x0pKp
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Or so I thought.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivKYawaNGh
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYTfhmqXpG
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"Okay."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjjqBwP6NV
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGX8MAoJoht
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7H8iQnPzTe
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0H7XbH1fx
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBgOndGwEu
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XHejcHei7
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHAo6q0z2w
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEvhPWo5JF
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0yVIPImw3
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajF9i6ZLkW
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30Tk5NFI6V
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxLZUmo6pt
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxftqKh88p
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A few months before I met Evetta.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr40gPSv8ov
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKnONQx5Km
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvbUy6u1P3
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She smiles.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1l2DVDjHX
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6QJKPQoFQ
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIgVDKkoot
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Ask her questions.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdbLFQg5Zm
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Get to know her better.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLNqPCrHoV
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlREe9dT8a
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7msyUntG7E
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"Why did you come here?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkItZnemTs
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"I came here to work as a nurse."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxR7K5LzBun
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Oh.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQuw2olNAX
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBKbe0dTIi
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzoSuACsYG
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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. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4p7lX3uQ4
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQQaGSArym
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"What was it like?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYeYxZ4qsR
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"Huh?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9a6UjDSEP
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79gbnaVoXu
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRlYd5F4uk
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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. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkGFCQ5vmL
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM87l2G2uHS
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She lets out a shaky laugh.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5IHWT1q4L
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFWVOiTgVS
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5JMXXxU8U
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1m4MBBpFf
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLoX9O6FAF
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGKukam2HX
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRTEGMpOQT
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"October 21, 1992."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF3CFkY0Nt
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"Any siblings?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdhUWzDNpN
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"No."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWi3VF96Zli
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"Favourite food?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL672OOp4h
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"Vegetable lasagna."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMgpjSdw1X
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"Favourite drink flavour?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgI2l1xaSde
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"Guava pineapple juice."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKZw6XcoK2
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"Favourite ice cream?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mAvvYjEVZ
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLGOp8l9cc
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDH5RqPaIcY
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"What things do you like?" 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvulIaMFZu
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbYN0NwhYx
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlrAz697aK
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpFxbyYNC3
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEex5sEaraC
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YIipChlLY
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"How many instruments do you have?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKg3npvriD
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"Nine."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCh1LS5AfbT
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Shit.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpBnCq1iYV
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVmyVOU7N8
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"What does Disklavier mean?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfwwMquC8C
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"It can play by itself."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbA9lAu4k4
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"Wow."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2stu9mzGI
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtq4Dn89HEa
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVc9UXpHFAI
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIfU12kKn8
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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. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWHqVGxiNE
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My final thought before falling asleep is:548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnnNNcxVc9
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How long will it take for me to remember her?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnHntemb3X
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