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This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
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Choices
Love
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Life
War
Death
Stories
Regret
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Sometimes the past needed to stay buried it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.
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But courage wasn't an absence of fear it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
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But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
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. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.
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Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
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Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.
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We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.
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Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.
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I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
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After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.
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People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.
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But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.
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You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.
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You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.
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We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
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Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
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He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.
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Sometimes I miss the old me.
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