Is It Possible to Really Love Someone Before the Age of Twenty-One?

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We were in my room. Two minutes ago, it would have been difficult to tell who was who. Not at this moment. I was still in my — very narrow — single bed; she was at the half-open window, satisfying the addiction to filling her lungs with soot.

I watched her…