and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
She said she couldn't handle it,_ he told me. ____ about to lose my eyesight and she can__ handle it.__ was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. . . .'Well, to be fair,' I said, 'I mean, she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.''I kept saying __lways_ to her today, __lways always always_, and she just kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? __lways_ was a promise! How can you just break a promise?''Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them', I said.Isaac shot me a look. __ight, of course. But you keep them anyway. That__ what love is. Love is keeping the promises anyway. Don__ you believe in true love?__ didn__ answer. I didn__ have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.
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She said she couldn't handle it,_ he told me. ____ about to lose my eyesight and she can__ handle it.__ was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. . . .'Well, to be fair,' I said, 'I mean, she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.''I kept saying __lways_ to her today, __lways always always_, and she just kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? __lways_ was a promise! How can you just break a promise?''Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them', I said.Isaac shot me a look. __ight, of course. But you keep them anyway. That__ what love is. Love is keeping the promises anyway. Don__ you believe in true love?__ didn__ answer. I didn__ have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.
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