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Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Forgive
Forgiving
Forget

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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.
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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
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I can't make it fade.
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If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
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I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.
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And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
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Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
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He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
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A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
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But hey, what's life without a little adversity? That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
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The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
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What good is strength if you have no sense?
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