Reflective Essay: Moving To Arizona

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He didn't text me until the next morning, he later told me he didn’t text me because he didn't want to seem desperate. He texted me and we texted for about an hour when then he told me "I need to tell you something, I'm a Marine and I'm leaving tomorrow morning and I'm deploying but when I come back I would love to take you out." It made me sad even though we were nothing, I don’t know why I was feeling this way at first I told him "we could go out before you leave, but I might don’t be here when you come back because I'm moving to Arizona in a couple months." He said me he wanted to spend some time with me before he left, I told him that I had to work all night again until one in the morning, but he wanted to wait for me. When work was over I ran home and changed into the cutest and first thing I could grab right away, and I met him at my work because we lived in different towns so it would be easier to just meet in the middle. …show more content…
We didn’t know what to do, it was early in the morning so only the bars were open and at the time I was only 20 so we couldn't go there, so we ended up just driving in his car for hours and then sitting at

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