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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.

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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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Around Ear Heard Made Music Physical Sense Skin
Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Again Become Life Much Own Surprise
Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Hand Heart Hold Hope Know
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Atom Hard Know Nothing Opposite Say Strain
I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Airpot Anything Kill Nearly Practice Say
You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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Always Bit Comfort Going Knock New Out Strange Uncomfortable World Zone
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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Broke Care Composer Crumped Face Feel Heart Held Just Like Shudder Stop Tightly Went
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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Believe Certain Dentist Description Drill Hour Joke Less Loose Mouth Power
My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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Alive Almost Anticipation Else End Jangled never Seem Some
I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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Change Felt Force Going Live Something Wanted
The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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Children Know Letting Okay Only People Really Rock Throw Whole
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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Afraid Destroy Life Live Realize Without
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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Deep Delicious Found Inhale Myself Seep Silently Skin Smell Something Sun
And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Cloud Day Home Just Kind Office One Suddenly University Walk

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.

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