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"What do you remember?" I pressed

She took a step forward and turned around "Enough to know that it isn’t what you’re thinking"

"Okay," I said, holding a smelly cotton ball in the air like ame the truth

"I’m sorry I broke your iPod" Her eyes darted to the reo," I said "Never really needed that thing"

"I’ll get you another one anyway"

"Don’t bother Really" I put the cap on the bottle of re me toward the exit And even if I still felt unsure about leaving her, I couldn’t force her to let me help

"I can take it from here," she said

"Okay" I picked up our eht downstairs if you need anything"

"Thanks," she said stiffly

Feeling as though I hadn’t really doneI spent hours in the library At Harkness you couldn’t really say "the library" without qualifying your location There were forty libraries, and everyone had a couple of favorite spots So, soo to the library to socialize There weren’t enough hours in the day So I favored the basement of the Central Ca a private study carrel They were nothing but a built-in desk, a chair, three walls and a sliding glass door We called theht I spread out my books and went to it

Eventually, I fell asleep on a book for Urban Studies I didn’t wake up until thebooks into ered outside to walk ho at this hour, with its old fashioned glass la shadows on the brick pathways There was nobody else out on the street, and I could ale was about to round the corner froate creaked as I let ate As I approached the entryway door, I tipped ht burned on the fourth floor in Bella’s roo

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