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Promise me, before you go and long for a fire that has been extinguished, consider the fact that the lost love you are dreaming about, ended for a reason.

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I’m on my way back to Arthur’s seat. Or is it Arthur’s peak? I never could remember.

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Do you remember our first heartbreak? 

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I have hopes for you.

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Be a good listener. Be in their shoes. Be understanding. 

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Don’t forget the times you were sad, and the times you were really angry, and all the times you were so happy you were almost scared.

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I don’t know what the future holds for me, but my past is clearer than it’s ever been.

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This agreement, this vow of secrecy Maddie made me take with her, it had ghastly undertones, though the specifics of what we were hiding eluded me. I suppose I had my guesses, but I dared not articulate them.

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I recognized it immediately. The House. Our House.

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I remember those butterflies.