"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9ckqvcZav
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡan0xz35rM5
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgE9s26bq7
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsUroRZyMN
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"And... how did we meet?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtslwUPDWq
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MnrPvtfIt
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bI0dLQkgr
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx8PKAMv1P
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznRehzJvBO
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiieCxospaY
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBJii5NvpM
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZA72lcJYm
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRtR52rz1B
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How does she do that?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKnR6RwGLy
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyXaPGpGiz
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"Did I ask that out loud?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHt8nwyGk9
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfG3eH7r2a
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWd68HuLls8
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Why have we never had sex? 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvARniuoNmC
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenMgedQLAw
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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.)519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9ndXq0F3C
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFtvdTrifp
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Two.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMKDuznet6
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I feel like a turd.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRuP86gkBx
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkaNDimj8n
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMty1fuiAdT
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn19PweXBQ
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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. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUX5zX29D3
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3jw2KkFZ0
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3pgrdHNnL
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD446GfdRh9
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3doQ2lI722
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxAYVb0DYm
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jy6VS2jGk
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lIsiOzeCJ
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Beautiful.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Jp0qxxuHg
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Special.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jCK7eWNlB
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Unique.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGyxLpRXYZ
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Extraordinary.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSWlvFZjRA
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Kind.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMGwmJssJA
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Loving.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvA7BJEuCH
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypePDOlxEJ
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXd0oq0Uti0
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Evetta: Hey.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVy4YIz8koT
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh458nFsIxJ
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Me: Hey.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnP739r88Fm
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GjoOwt3AL
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrUB5V44ZO
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I see typing appear in her box.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ERA9r0g24
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8f1K7wPPe
I miss u 2, btw.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6i3Ix0zkqx
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeBWXAejgE
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYqF0yzr3D
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzAkZzDTDn
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDqxLo4W5b
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Hc2l0Z2Xy
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hbY7obMQ1
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuCZENZKm6
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJanfQMcX1O
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGUCANLUTJ
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yxxLSgiY3
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGRCFa9zCq
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSvGrmF6Hh
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvaqGJ52H9
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJN1cgHy40
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"Sure," I reply.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqE1gdUsbMW
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"Can I stay?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS09qbU7x1j
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Stay? What does that entail?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAG8k6JNkSS
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEe25xWqKM
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Or so I thought.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJAqhI11hy
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlEpjcJERF
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"Okay."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJskSVOv21n
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlj7kV8xVfv
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeQpBqz69a
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksIANyY8VC
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcghxHSjow
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslg3uYUXEW
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqShB5KHbgL
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W1eVdszVv
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4cAN0any0
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1nC1cJB5R
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDre3J3M9d
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTBY8AH75K
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBoHLBCaLe
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A few months before I met Evetta.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcj9yT5PKw
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4yeMYY06y
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAVhxRLj3A
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She smiles.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioIYjNf4h2
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjesgbBstK2
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1bZa0pU3i
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Ask her questions.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDaJj9DnBl
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Get to know her better.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Wv0k96CQd
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfu3m02YCg2
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJQr7hQB3R
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"Why did you come here?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfai9wyNbhW
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"I came here to work as a nurse."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4e0qrcH53
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkiAPLRYMU
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNuzvnT30p
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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. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwiaDfympv
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDu1hHQoTET
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"What was it like?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMLNNkunJY
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"Huh?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrErm8TpSt
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4edVuQRpg
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14LgOJBTVc
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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. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDX0Fd4fKY
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzTYTJpBKp
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She lets out a shaky laugh.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vpsomPVnk
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPo17TNXux
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3BuDAyNda
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuizb8kq5oy
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡES6rzMTzNu
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykeWXgRxnm
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX45KPtRA83
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"October 21, 1992."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFKZBzFXVC
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"Any siblings?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnbfKBbyNR
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"No."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwH8XCPFz6
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"Favourite food?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7df2yiD0b
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"Vegetable lasagna."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pNLMNwJdi
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"Favourite drink flavour?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQuuNgnNyU
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"Guava pineapple juice."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2SDgAVaJy
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"Favourite ice cream?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LmFIFs8Po
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWua8N23dYB
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefYo3leFuj
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"What things do you like?" 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Z5yKmMWZH
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS60BKbtHk
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnFCgCiM8H
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOO2ekq9cR
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq8hzpx3wD
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj15ftTg5IP
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"How many instruments do you have?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSrSuglKwn
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"Nine."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqS4P5UAw7G
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Shit.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBB1BeFm5vO
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNjAfCYiDJ
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"What does Disklavier mean?"519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKZSicimgi
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"It can play by itself."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KlqNEiXsl
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"Wow."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXPJj7FEWy
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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.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDLCp8lEuw
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzg4gKnI0h
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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."519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPF6vfpq3ap
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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. 519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gl7PiDXol
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My final thought before falling asleep is:519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOvLnk16D5
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How long will it take for me to remember her?519Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56IQq339Hu
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