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- Page 7 and 8: of those babies,” my dad whispers
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- Page 43 and 44: My name will come up. Matt will get
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15I meet up with Blake aer work on
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check off “3. Go on a picnic” a
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“Blake! I swear to God, don’t l
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17I spend most of the next day hidi
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afternoons. But I also think about
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pumps are older than dirt.”“No
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Claire in Kauai over spring break,
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wrist. “Your mom gave it to my da
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I’d needed someone more than anyt
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We’re planning on camping out in
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Blake’s silent, leaving a space f
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20The first thing I feel when I wak
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“Valid point.” She nods, pausin
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needles and all that.Even though I
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21When we pull up to my house, I’
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A new start.I push it away, whirlin
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e story had gone viral aer a local
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23The second Nina pulls into the pa
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“Yeah.” He nods. “Okay.”Rel
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My voice trails o and I hold up the
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25The next forty-eight hours pass i
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She turns around to look at me, her
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Blake’s shoulder brushes against
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27This is exhilarating.My adrenalin
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really wants. Except for this.”It
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look down at Matt. For a moment I w
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e thought pushes me out of the room
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I drop my bag in the entryway, my v
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29The second I walk into Nina’s t
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wanted,” I say. “All the years
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I think about all the years we’ve
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carefully uproot a sunflower to rep
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his arm around me. “Hey! I still
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And if my mom taught me anything th
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A new chance, just like the one I h
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boyfriend a girl could ask for.en J
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Also coauthored by Rachael Lippinco