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Life went on without her, the cruel bastard that it is. I wished it would have stopped. I wished a fucking semi truck would have taken me out and ended the misery. But slowly, time stretched on. I went to school, but I stopped dating. I played basketball, but I stopped surfing. I graduated. I moved back home. I moved on — at least, as much as I could. I convinced myself I would be alright without her. But the day the universe decided to put us in the same place again, I realized just how naïve I’d been.
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