PERSONAL TIME

• Have escaped
• Got my divorce two years ago
• Stood
• Cried
• I wonder if we are talking about the same thing
• You reach for my hand as we get to the end of the line
• I press into your fingers.
• I always wanted tickets to ride when I was a kid
• I cannot see your smile now, but I imagine it.
• The blue looks like them, I think.
• Maybe, like me, they want to hold onto this forever.
• I have always been terrified of heights
• When I was seven years old, my father took me on the roller coaster four times in a row.
• We are going until you aren't afraid anymore, he told me.
• I want you to have this secret part of me, but later. Not now.
• I look at you. Loving you is something that I no longer question.
• Love is definitely not the issue.
• The issue is living with you.
• I think about the time my father pretended to put me in the trunk of his car and drive off.
• Maybe our lives will work this way too--one day, 9,999 days, forever.

In this section I have written down everything that refers to our main character’s thoughts and memories.

That is why the most of the verbs are in the past tense, because she is remembering concrete situations of her life from when she was a child (using “when I was…”) to moments up until her boyfriend asked her to marry him.

The other few verbs that are in present tense are referring to thoughts that she makes in the same timeframe whilst talking to her boyfriend. A clear example that confirms what I am saying is the verb “think” which is used several times.

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Creada: 06/12/2008 Última Actualización: 06/12/2008