"So, uh, how long were we together?" I ask hesitantly. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6EYVfi5wh
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We're at a bar that I remember frequently visiting alone; not necessarily to drink, but to contemplate life.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56EuaPjGPD
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCLAkTeFiO
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQSoUzGakQ
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"And... how did we meet?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wiPEP8cPB
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She swallows, and looks at me, her lips forming a smile.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhRsnKVphq
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"You were sitting here. Alone. At this very table. I came over and started flirting with you."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64SZ8v8ug0
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4CWDUhIYU
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I suddenly realise something. To the best of my memory, I'm a virgin. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm9sudNvpj
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But I was with her for six months, so we must have done something, right?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i3AN740QC
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"You look worried," she says, reading me like a book.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNDpIZAcLu
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"I'm just thinking of how I don't remember anything we did together in our relationship."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95XNZyKmdU
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"We never had sex of any kind," she deadpans. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzbWsNZnxu
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How does she do that?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHfu1Uxr3w
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHyt1jTA5i
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"Did I ask that out loud?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfz7ulNhKD
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"No, but you might as well have; it was written all over your face."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxlxCBbLLE
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I'm looking right at her, her brown eyes staring right back at me. She really is an interesting creature.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡej5mTXLequ
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Why have we never had sex? 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMogcndvqHc
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That confused me. Isn't that what normal, consenting adults do?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02hAJy63wT
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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.)517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PMNIynLYK
Her birthday seems to be sometime in October. Since I was out for well over a year, I missed two of her birthdays.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xz2uK7zUa
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Two.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyC68gxrYw
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I feel like a turd.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREuQxroGiJ
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She's older than me, though. I'm still twenty three.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioP93UaSx2
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"Why did we never have sex?" I ask, getting straight to the point, unable to hide my curiosity anymore.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0w24SxHp3
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtM8sa5jCVh
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRZCpC6bfB
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"I wonder how you look under all those clothes," she murmurs.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLb2aRGUy5j
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOxuiO6pDf
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That easy. It's kind of embarrassing, and amazing at the same time.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwteFLgT5p
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I wonder if she knows that I'm a virgin; did I ever tell her?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXAnAQfHVb
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"By the way," she says, smirking, "I find it cute that we're both virgins."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOki0hZVdu
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCAOUvQugB
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She's amazing; I can feel it. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxu8cFFl7r
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Beautiful.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcjndbdufj
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Special.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiwoTLc3zI
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Unique.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErMwD1fYen
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Extraordinary.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYpNo7Hoto
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Kind.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQPAjEZjPH
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Loving.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw2czJSQiq
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I don't even know how I know this; I just do.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUuqvnn2XS
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2dYwrrZk7
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Evetta: Hey.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37vbTsSb4o
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It's her. My heart skips a beat as I open my phone to answer her.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFOMApFWhF
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Me: Hey.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyuRmAwzQ5
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After a few seconds, I type out a longer response.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4z6BrEDPK
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Me: How are you? I miss you, by the way.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlRBE0iiEU
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I see typing appear in her box.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnObvx8BER
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Evetta: Ur so cute. U always type everything instead of using txt lang.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS75wqbEj7
I miss u 2, btw.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmb8IZqSk70
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To be honest, that last part is affecting me more than it should.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPQQzfjmnC
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Evetta: I ❤️ u. U don't have 2 say anything, just want u 2 know that I ❤️ u.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjcelwY0QA
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4Vn8EMVQy
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I nearly died from being thrown off a horse. Anything is possible.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHubUXNbI4
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCzT2KC44s
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I press send, and as soon as the blue ticks appear beside my name, she calls me.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BorQ21RyI
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"Did you really mean that?" she asks.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85Ftvr6lus
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"Of course I did." Why would I lie about something like that?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSzrUB4U5A
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"Why didn't you wait until your memories of me came back?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRA3VcrLD93
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGizDiaNova
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"I'm pretty sure that it's 'life is a bitch, then you die'."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5aFxK81mH
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Her giggle makes me giggle a little too.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1eVBQkFhQ
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"It's unpredictable; that's the one thing I've taken away from my experience." I sound much calmer.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCOti9Q1lb
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There's silence for a few beats, then she says, "Can I come over?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvgC1gLho5
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"Sure," I reply.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEn1zgVGNWq
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"Can I stay?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHVkFY4XcG
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Stay? What does that entail?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMfjECKhkA
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"Sure," I say again, my voice giving nothing away.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUNIL42ygt
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Or so I thought.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJLo3cdmY7
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"I'm not coming to steal your virtue, Caleb," she says, humour in her voice.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh1IPyctp3
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"Okay."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspoQBuWatK
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPshdsemekR
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"Your mum let me in," she says, amused by my baffled expression.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNASnQhZd5
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She's wearing blue pyjamas, with white flip flops.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvnjEtU8X6
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"Actually, I was thinking about what you said earlier; how unpredictable is and whatnot."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQczHH0Mds1
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I stare at her, waiting for her to continue.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTMdaSvhgd
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"I believe that you're right — to a point."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NEi7291qQ
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She pauses to kick off her flip flops and sit on the bed, cross legged, in front of me.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYf9T0f08z
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoueBjzExZ
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c2Zlq1TEP
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"I know you're not the same anymore, but just... try. Try not to be to rash."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJJqMQ4l8L
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeGB3f9edW
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPEaeg6VK3
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A few months before I met Evetta.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqI3QtYyVnc
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"What are you thinking about?" Evetta asks.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwgsMI04Cf
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"I got back this memory that I'm a vegetarian."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ceJgS8HA9
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She smiles.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEODi0cgd20
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"Yeah. That's why I am. You converted me."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHctAY6ncH0
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I smile, then remember my original plan. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6w8vJxavhB
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Ask her questions.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZSK4kc9Wf
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Get to know her better.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3K8tcuNdZ
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"So I presume you're Jamaican."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVmRqwru6B
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"You presume right," she says, her lips turning up into a smile once more.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0w5VXtoIw
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"Why did you come here?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbYcPokW1v
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"I came here to work as a nurse."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvoZSBJPHB
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I'm a veterinarian; from what I can remember, I just graduated.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMumoXX1qm
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fDZubiZNi
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4Pzhx9NUo
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I was in a coma for over a year, after all. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFHUqvrSsk
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"What was it like?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKlRunejhv
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"Huh?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOk4tszDxc1
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"What was it like? Having a boyfriend in a coma."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUIcso33WG
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She looks me dead in the eye before looking up thoughtfully.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsP5XVNlEh
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgXXZgQYbX
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDt2huN9L1e
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She lets out a shaky laugh.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8J8gLNamr
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hw62fLtBK
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I suddenly feel this wave of guilt hit me; I'm hurting her.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Fwbrm7idn
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaMDNHJc2Y
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"You're still the same boy I fell in love with. This will work. We'll be fine."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1GVHgK2nk
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Somehow, she sounds more like she's trying to convince herself than she is me.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBOMEDot5E
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"Tell me about yourself. What's your date of birth?" I ask, lying down and pulling her with me.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0hypvEJr2
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"October 21, 1992."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ693Ehhx6FN
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"Any siblings?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡietsfLdncJ
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"No."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlaqhuO0qT
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"Favourite food?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1uBsH2lfR
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"Vegetable lasagna."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9fGHtKmRO
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"Favourite drink flavour?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdlganfBLs
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"Guava pineapple juice."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5OtnAKcZi
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"Favourite ice cream?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ627q6VO1rH
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"Häagen-Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sq1mV9hzf
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpjmE8p1Tw
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"What things do you like?" 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdH3fhiB6t
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZ2xdP4eWO
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I look at her, squeezing her hand which is still in mine, urging her to continue.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZmTdqfOxH
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"I love fragrances, especially fruity or natural ones. I love to play the violin, and guitar, and piano."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5IXZ5DD2Y
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"You have a piano?" I ask, my eyebrows shooting up in surprise.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHeNrBdDNB
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvCfrGn7Gd
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"How many instruments do you have?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJ5JiN7tw5
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"Nine."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKHoXBalow
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Shit.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUo3Jjj4ULb
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxqfjA96rw
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"What does Disklavier mean?"517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfMBrI0lZA
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"It can play by itself."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FLJORFDaw
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"Wow."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDuNY6g8cx
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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.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9W2t0xz4J
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"So... what other instruments do you plan on collecting?" I ask as she comes to snuggle into me once more.517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBX7RZXmLa
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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."517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPyfhi5R88
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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. 517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUguqNG5B4
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My final thought before falling asleep is:517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3Xk5Rf9Gk
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How long will it take for me to remember her?517Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk51PlHcGt1
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