"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmmftLrfgA
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCuX5cuWFj
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20zQcvq5f6
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoARyAfDrVR
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"And... how did we meet?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9kW2hh4vU
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXOxPsvQI4
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YTdYLZKws
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt25CCft2AS
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZyH9ZIpN0
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RcuGN71F6
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRB0lU28W9G
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lleic3N6r
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw2OlBpsFq
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How does she do that?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXiTy8dJsi
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyL7t9FiwT
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"Did I ask that out loud?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Vlf0TehJm
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwaVQwposQ
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwvwuxieHJ
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Why have we never had sex? 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFu92aMJDZ
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmWWfwnive
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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.)505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVo3wYlJsCC
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi46FeDtAv4
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Two.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rTFyESY1t
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I feel like a turd.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1ES7qlBjL
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLe8ZPCZ5rp
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdCQ0nbEnZ
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjmkkj5TED
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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. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe335QCFFP
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrIiHTp7NY
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTROmbYOXRc
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjTkKZkwrp
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyAs29ceeF
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLE6S2vMkg
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uylH0hBat
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TNklDV7mt
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Beautiful.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSVLZBR5yd
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Special.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPY6E7eUTLK
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Unique.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfghUT3trL7
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Extraordinary.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SYTBHJPZK
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Kind.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxUdNKqjRE
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Loving.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5Z5osnJEE
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCWKf8wrHy
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXGIzYE72m
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Evetta: Hey.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgXecMlvSv
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzATHmAv74D
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Me: Hey.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpSmYLwK5A
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZamethGQ0
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhPsw1IkTX
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I see typing appear in her box.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52LhANLsvm
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMUdBj4cpc
I miss u 2, btw.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rfSKccLLk
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsPDf7ltki
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRJHW0w6dE
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCzFOQNQ9c
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTHfWC1fah
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y29NDlc62
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiOdn8HKo8
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8WO2sqLJR
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjf6JACTQ3
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qEqSkxmVO
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVlZBqMSZO
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzkbzcAl2z
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifGPMJdzAS
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkM2YekctR
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQXHEgZNvv
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"Sure," I reply.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6boF7PXcP
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"Can I stay?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8oxviEuOa
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Stay? What does that entail?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdk8DDabMn0
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QnAdUkuD6
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Or so I thought.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSTjc9CaoT
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Z4MpzMPl3
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"Okay."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqOYUeoZA4
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3syeXwxalr
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3eWtg4Ln8
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6KRWEN2nB
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrxHfwymJv
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIMyeCLIWJ
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7awl3MtQq
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLgXeyP5sw
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbtYZtBLoV
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wtmEQ5yvp
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefqsOB6fKB
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmojGO1okrk
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlS6JPDGKRJ
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A few months before I met Evetta.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGB3JPpwKz3
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvsokhGGwb
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OaFMZ9Gak
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She smiles.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxR3YfQ15ih
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAFSsMPSRs
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYWcD1Kqyr
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Get to know her better.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ998tpwSWec
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVgRDUjpeH
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYC2Hw5n4Z
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"Why did you come here?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn9plSKV2c
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"I came here to work as a nurse."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxNs0wMHGR
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87doSAHcla
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6kyv4paIn
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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. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDIjhTAEuM
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAKonP49Ps
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"What was it like?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2USpIq1H3s
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"Huh?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tYOdrPj1L
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsG7cFR1V4D
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjR7yAGzWm
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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. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLgNjcLw4A
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzStZi8mj4
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She lets out a shaky laugh.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0slMVto7J
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQX8H9n3jK
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cEClrAO6o
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uxn10vkBr
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEumbvg9ui
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9aVjbYFzI
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5Af7AkV0C
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"October 21, 1992."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7KB5Ntwgr
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"Any siblings?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtVIvnNRx2
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"No."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhQwAcuQPj
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"Favourite food?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNh0WvmuQ8i
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"Vegetable lasagna."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hv2NkZFNj
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"Favourite drink flavour?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZRvdbO1rf
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"Guava pineapple juice."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnSADDH44K
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"Favourite ice cream?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEeWjbsKaw
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCTRi9cg1J
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lMQAWJLIP
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"What things do you like?" 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQqSPC6nd0
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNOSNIZroE
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdL0ir9hLr
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSL7JzU3bZM
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKzHalVS0z
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSC61FCgB1
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"How many instruments do you have?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHDeZWwKTh
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"Nine."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDhvwA96yg
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Shit.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9MVuVZ27P
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJOV6BevPE
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"What does Disklavier mean?"505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dJkVau4vn
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"It can play by itself."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWkVODwfQK
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"Wow."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JCkEBtYpY
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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.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVSdcgjHMg
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYz89DoDRL
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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."505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1b0It3DxAZ
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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. 505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMiYkNX7et
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My final thought before falling asleep is:505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7g9vlPFcIc
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How long will it take for me to remember her?505Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhFHHMkjXG
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