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Caloroga Shark Media. Welcome to Romance Weekly. This is February second,
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Episode one, Groundhog. The bride is going to throw up
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at two forty seven pm. I know this because I've
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watched it happen oney ninety five times. She'll be standing
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at the altar, halfway through her vows, and her face
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will go pale, and she'll turn to the left, always
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the left, and vomit directly onto the Maid of Honor's shoes.
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The maid of honor will scream, the groom will freeze,
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the mother of the bride will faint, though I'm pretty
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sure she's faking it for attention, and I'll capture the
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whole thing on camera, because that's what I do. That's
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what I've been doing for three years. February second, The
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Hartley Morrison wedding, the worst day of my professional life,
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repeating forever. I used to try to stop it. The vomiting.
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I mean, I've tried warning the bride. I've tried switching
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her champagne for water. I've tried faking a fire alarm
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at two forty five. None of it works. The day
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has a shape, and the shape includes Chelsea Hartley throwing
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up on her best friends Jimmy Choos. Now I don't
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bother I just photograph it like everything else, wait for
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midnight and wake up in my hotel room to do
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it all again. My name is June Alcott. I'm thirty
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two years old. I've been living the same day for
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three years, and I've stopped wondering why the morning routine
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is automatic. Now, alarm at seven o'clock, shower, hair, make
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up that I'll sweat off by noon because the venue's
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heating system is broken and they've overcompensated with space heaters.
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Black coffee from the lobby, which tastes burned because the
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morning Clark, a kid named Danny who's working his way
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through community college, always leaves the pot on too long.
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Big day, Danny asks, as I passed the front desk,
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you have no idea? He laughs. He won't remember this
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conversation tomorrow, because tomorrow will be today, and today will
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be the same as yesterday, and yesterday was the same
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as the day before that. I used to try to
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connect with people, Danny, the bride, the guests. I learned
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their stories, their secrets, their fears. I thought maybe if
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I understood them well enough, something would change. Nothing changed,
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so I stopped trying. The venue is a converted barn
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forty minutes outside the city Rustic Chekh, the bride called
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it when we did the consultation. That was three years
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ago for me, one day ago for her. I've driven
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this root so many times I could do it blindfolded.
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Every pothole, every curve, every spot where the cell service drops.
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I park in my usual spot, third row, near the
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oak tree, and haul my equipment toward the barn. The
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wedding coordinator, a harried woman named Patricia, rushes over with
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her clipboard June. Thank god. The florist is having a meltdown.
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The groom's mother won't stop crying, and someone let the
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flower girl have red bull. The peonies are in the
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wrong shade of pink, I say. Tell the florist to
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check the second cooler in her van. She brought a
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back up arrangement and forgot. The groom's mother is crying
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because she found out her ex husband is bringing his
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new girlfriend. Give her a mimosa and keep them on
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opposite sides of the venue, and the flower girl will
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crash in about an hour, so just let her burn
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it off. Patricia stares at me, How did you? Lucky? Guess?
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I walk past her into the barn, the same fairy lights,
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the same hay bales, the same disaster waiting to unfold,
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like it has a thousand times before, but today something
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is different. There's a man standing by the bar. I've
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never seen him before. That might not sound significant. New guests,
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catering staff, random plus ones. People cycle through this wedding
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all the time. I've memorized most of them by now,
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but there's always some cou I've overlooked, some vendors, assistant
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I haven't cataloged, but I would have noticed him. He's tall,
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maybe six', two with dark hair going gray at the,
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temples and the kind of face that looks like it's
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been through. Something not handsome in a polished, way handsome
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in a weathered, way like a house that's survived a
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lot of. Storms he's not dressed for a, wedding, jeans
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a flannel, shirt work. Boots he's drinking, coffee not, champagne
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not the signature cocktail the couple spent three months, designing
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just black. Coffee like he's here for a completely different,
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event and he's watching, me not casually the way guests
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sometimes watch the photographer, intently like he's been waiting for
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me to notice. Him our eyes meet across the. Barn
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something flickers across his, face surprise, maybe or, fear and
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then he turns and walk out the side. DOOR i
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should let him. GO i have a wedding to, shoot
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a bride to, watch, vomit a day to. Survive whatever
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that man, is he's not my. Problem But i've been
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living the same day for three, years and this is
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the first new thing that's happened in all that. TIME
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i follow. Him he's. Fast by the TIME i get,
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outside he's already halfway across the parking, lot heading for
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a beat up Truck i've never seen. Before, HEY i call, out, Hey.
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Wait he doesn't, Stop if, anything he walks. FASTER i
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break into a, jog cursing my equipment, bag cursing my impractical,
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boots cursing the fact THAT i care about this at.
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ALL i, said. Wait he reaches the, truck yanks open the.
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Door you're looping, too aren't. You he. Freezes the words
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came out BEFORE i could think about, Them but the
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moment they're in the, AIR i know they're. True the
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way he looked at, me the way he's, dressed the
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way he's running from a wedding where he clearly doesn't.
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Belong he's like. Me slowly he turns. Around up, close
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he looks even more, weathered tired in a way that
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goes deeper than. Sleep his eyes are, brown serious and
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right now they're looking at me Like i'm a. Ghost how?
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Long he? Asks his voice is, rough like he hasn't
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used it much. Lately three years. You he closes his.
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Eyes something passes over his, face pain, maybe or relief or.
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Both Seven we sit on the tailgate of his, truck
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The february cold seeping through my, coat the muffled sounds
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of wedding prep floating across the parking. Lot his name Is,
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Theo Theo. Vance he was a paramedic before the loop.
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Started though he says before like it's a foreign. Country
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he barely. Remembers seven. YEARS i keep repeating, it trying
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to make it. Real you've been doing this for seven,
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years two, thousand five hundred and fifty seven, days he says,
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it without, hesitation give or. Take how are you not?
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Insane who Says i'm? Not he almost. Smiles Almost the
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first few years were, BAD i tried, everything staying awake past,
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midnight driving as far AS i, could checking myself into a.
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Hospital nothing. Worked the day just. RESETS i, know believe,
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ME i. KNOW i think about all my own failed,
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Experiments the TIMES i drove for hours only to wake
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up in my hotel room at seven. Am the TIME
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i took a whole bottle of sleeping pills trying to
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see IF i could sleep through the. RESET i woke
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up at seven a. M not even. Groggy so what
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do you do? Now how do you feel the TIME
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i learn? Things he. Shrugs, languages, instruments medical PROCEDURES i
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was never trained. For when you have infinite, time you
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can master almost. Anything what's the. Point it's not like
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any of it carries over the knowledge carries over the.
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Skills he taps his. Temple whatever we, are whatever's happening to,
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Us our minds aren't, resetting just the world around. Us
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i've noticed that, Too the WAY i remember every, loop every,
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detail every word spoken and. Forgotten it's, exhausting carrying three
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years of memory that no one else. Shares how did
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you find? ME i ask the, WEDDING i, mean why
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are you? Here he's quiet for a lot. Moment when he,
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speaks his voice is. Careful i've known about you for a.
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While i've seen you around town at this venue doing your.
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JOB i knew you were. LOOPING i can tell, somehow
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the way you moved through the day like it's already.
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Happened but you never talked to. Me, no why? Not
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he looks, Away BECAUSE i knew ONCE i, did everything would,
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change AND i wasn't ready for. That ready for? What
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he doesn't. Answer inside the, Barn Chelsea hartley is about
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to throw. Up i'm not there to photograph. It for
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the first time in three. Years i'm missing the shot
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sitting in a parking lot with a stranger talking about
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the impossible thing we. Share it should bother. Me the
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PERFECTIONIST i used to be would be. Horrified but the
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PERFECTIONIST i used to be didn't understand that none of this.
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Matters the photos, reset the wedding, Resets everything resets except.
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Us CAN i ask you? SOMETHING theo, Says, Sure what
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were you doing on the Original february second before the loop?
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Started do you? REMEMBER i. Frown it's been so long
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that the edges of that day have, blurred overwritten by
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thousands of identical. COPIES i was here shooting this, wedding
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same as. Always and After where did you go after the?
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WEDDING i try to. Remember the reception goes until ten.
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O'CLOCK i pack up my, equipment say goodbye to the,
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coordinator drive back toward the. CITY i drove. HOME i
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THINK i don't really remember. Arriving what route did you?
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Take the? Interstate probably why he's quiet, again that careful.
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Silence he's choosing what to reveal and what to keep.
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Hidden there's SOMETHING i need to tell, you he finally,
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says about why we're, here about why we're. Connected. Connected
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the loop isn't, Random. June it's not just bad luck
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or cosmic. Coincidence there's a reason we're both stuck In. February,
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second a reason we're both stuck here at this, wedding
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in this. Town he turns to face, me and his
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eyes are heavy with SOMETHING i can't. Name BUT i
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don't think you're ready to hear it. Yet that's not
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your call to. Make maybe, not But i've had seven
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years to think about, this AND i know what happens
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when you learn the truth too. Fast it breaks. Something
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he shakes his. Head let me show you something. First
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let me show you what the loop can be when
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you stop fighting. It what does that? Mean he, stands
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offers me his. Hand it MEANS i want to give
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you one good, day just, why before everything. CHANGES i
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look at his, hand, rough, calloused. STEADY i should demand.
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ANSWERS i should push until he tells me. Everything that's
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what the Old june would, do the one who thought
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knowing things meant controlling. Them but the Old june was.
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Exhausted the Old june had spent three years alone in
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a day that never, ended and she'd forgotten what it
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felt like to want. Anything this man is offering me
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something new in three years that's never. HAPPENED i take his.
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Hand a good. Day it turns out looks like. This
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we leave the, wedding just walk, away get in his,
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truck drive until the venue is a speck in the
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rear view. Mirror i've never done that, before never abandoned
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a loop in. Progress and there's a giddiness to, it
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a recklessness that feels almost like. Freedom where are we?
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GOING i? Ask? Everywhere nowhere doesn't. Matter he glances at.
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Me what's something you've always wanted to do but never
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had time? FOR i don't. KNOW i used to want
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to see the. Ocean which? Ocean any of? Them i've never.
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Been he, smiles a real, smile this, time the first
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One i've. SEEN i know a place about three hours from.
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Here we won't be able to stay long before the,
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reset but we can make. It we. Drive he plays
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music from a collection of CDs that's hilariously. Outdated he
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explains that his truck is from before the, loop and
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he's never bothered to upgrade. It and we talk about,
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nothing favorite, foods worse, jobs the, small meaningless details of
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lives that stopped moving forward years. Ago it's, easy easier
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THAN i. Expected he doesn't ask about my, trauma doesn't
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try to fix, me doesn't treat the loop like a
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problem to be. Solved he just drives and talks and
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lets me. Be at four, pm we stop at a
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diner he. Knows the waitress greets him by, name theo
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haven't seen you in a, while AND i realize he's
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been coming here for, years building relationships that, reset maintaining
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connections that only he. Remembers doesn't it? HURT i? Ask
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after she takes our, order knowing she won't remember you.
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Tomorrow it used. To now it's just part of the.
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TEXTURE i get to meet her for the first, time
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over and. Over there's something beautiful about that if you
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look at it the right. WAY i don't, know so
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IF i can look at it that, way you might be.
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Surprised prospective shifts when you have enough. Time after the,
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diner we drive for another. Hour the landscape changes, flatter,
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emptier the kind of rural nowhere that makes you feel
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like the only person in the. World and, then just
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as the sun is starting to, SET i see. It the,
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ocean not. Close we're on a cliff overlooking a, bay
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the water gray and churning in The february. Cold but it's,
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there real and, vast and moving in a way nothing
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in my loop ever. MOVES i get out of the,
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truck walk to the edge of the, cliff let the
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wind hit my, face tasting, salt feeling the. Spray three,
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YEARS i, Say AND i don't Realize i'm crying until
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theo hands me a. Tissue three years AND i never
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thought to do. This you are Surviv that's different from.
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Living he stands beside, me not too, close giving me.
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SPACE i spent the first two years of my loop
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just trying to get through each. Day it wasn't until
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year three THAT i started actually using the, time using
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it for what, anything, everything learning to, cook learning to play,
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piano reading every book in the. Library he, pauses trying