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Everybody starts out as strangers.

J.A. Redmerski

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
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Little Rock
Arkansas
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Everybody
Strangers
Starts

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I don’t want to sleep alone,” she says gently. And I don’t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.
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Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.
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Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.
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I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.
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This goes against everything that I am, Sarai, he says and then kisses me. No, it doesn't, I whisper and kiss him back. It's you becoming more of who you really are.
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Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.
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Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
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It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.
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You’re sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you’re convinced you’re going to die of discomfort.
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Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
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I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes. - Adria
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Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.
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Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud
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