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And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.
Beth Harbison
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I missed the idea of him more than he himself.
Beth Harbison
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She couldn't have cared less when she got home or if she ever got home. All that mattered was this moment & that this moment continues.
Beth Harbison
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I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.
Beth Harbison
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Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been.
Beth Harbison
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Trust that things do work out by themselves sometimes.
Beth Harbison
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She pulled up to the garage in front of Nordstrom (no matter where she was going in the mall, she liked to enter through Nordstrom)
Beth Harbison
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Who they are today isn't who they were then.
Beth Harbison
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She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.
Beth Harbison
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Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing – it can happen to anyone. But it doesn't happen to everyone. Even though everyone, deep down, wants it. Anyway, I do.
Beth Harbison
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That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.
Beth Harbison
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How different would I be, if I'd never met him? Might I have had a normal dating life like my friends did, flitting from one guy to the next, never getting too serious or too invested in one while I was still so young? Who would I be if I hadn't endured the heartbreak of losing him & losing that part of myself that was built around him?
Beth Harbison
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Here's the only thing I know for sure: Chopped pineapple is incredible on hot dogs. Honest to God, I love pineapple on everything- I would probably even eat it off a cadaver's hand- but toss it with a little chopped red onion and put it on a hot dog, and it's bliss. There's not a lot you can count on in this world, but pineapple? It's solid.
Beth Harbison
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I found myself teetering on the edge of Uh-oh, and looking straight down the barrel of Oh, shit.
Beth Harbison
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And everyone’s story would be different. Every triumph would have a different prize, every heart ache a different face.
Beth Harbison
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I think its better to do whatever is going to make you feel the most peaceful and happy.
Beth Harbison
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Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls.
Beth Harbison
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She'd know the smell of him, the taste of him, the feel of him anywhere.
Beth Harbison
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What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.
Beth Harbison
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I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.
Beth Harbison
