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This is Zoro. Leave a message.
Hey, Marimo, just checking in, you still wanna go to that party? I kinda don't feel like going. All dudes, no girls. Might as well just stay home and sit with your ass.
Also, do you know if Luffy wrecked or turned off his phone? The bastard isn't picking up my calls again. I keep on saying that calling is the superior form of communication, but it doesn't seem to get through your thick heads.
Let me know in the near future. And by calling. I don't want to receive texts from you.
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This is Zoro. Leave a message.
Marimo, I swear. I know you're on a flight right now, but I have to get this shit off my chest. This dude at Baratie just pissed me off so bad. I'm one strike away from Zeff kicking me out of the kitchen for three weeks, so I had to keep a lid on it, you know? Obviously I wasn't gonna blow up on him.
But he seemed to take my quietness as a sign of fear, or whatever. He said that to me, and it's like, what's the term, adding fuel to the fire? So when he left I pulled him to the side and rocked his shit so bad he was sobbing. Serves him damn right.
Oh, yeah. When you land, give your sister my regards. Your dad too. And God, tell Luffy to pick up his phone.
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This is Zoro. Leave a message.
You're not that busy, asshole. Pick up my calls.
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This is Zoro. Leave a message.
Hey, can you call me back whenever you're free? I need to meet you. Right now.
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This is Zoro. If you're Swirly, you should just text me.
Fuck, are you okay? I just heard from your sister. I hope you're okay.
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Love you.
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This is Zoro. If you're Swirly, you should just text me.
Don't ghost me like this, Zoro. Please. Just, pick up your phone? I'm sorry. I really am. I went to your house and you weren't there, can we please meet somewhere? Please?
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Cook, leave a message. Or just text.
Hey, what's that brand of sake you like again?
Oh actually, nevermind. Got it. You know, this stuff is expensive. Remind me why I'm buying it for you again? Your birthday doesn't need this much celebration.
Happy birthday, by the way. Love you.
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Cook, leave a message. Or just text.
Zoro, you left your jacket in my car. Let me know if you want it anytime soon, or if I can just burn it.
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Cook, leave a message. Or just text.
Hey. I'm bored at work. Zeff is forcing me to not work, so I'm just on a perpetual smoke break, I guess. Pick up my calls, Marimo, I want to talk to you.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
I refuse to text you the pictures until you come home so you can see for yourself, but Wado gave birth! We have three little kittens now. Can I name one Chuji? He looks like he'd be a Chuji. Come home quick so we can name the rest.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Pick up cat food from the store once you're done? Enma is trying to fight me. So is Kitetsu. Save me.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Zoro. Pick up. I'm worried.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
I miss you.
Fuck, I can't say this without crying.
Hearing your voice say my name and say you love me when you're no longer here fucking sucks.
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Zeff's calling. God, this geezer has shitty timing—
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Hey, Zoro.
Wado and Enma passed. It's just me, Kitetsu, and Chuji now.
You know, I've tried texting, but it just isn't the same. If I text, your stupid voice wouldn't greet me and say shit like "thank you" and "love you". It's so stupid, but...
Whatever.
I love you.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Happy birthday, Zoro. I love—
I love you.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
It's been a year since you left us, but I still can't let you go. I'm still paying for your phone bills. Your sister says I should stop torturing myself by calling you from time to time. Your dad thinks I'm a nutcase. I probably am. God, I—
I miss you so, so much—
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Happy birthday, my love. Words can't describe how much I miss you. All of your friends miss you.
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Rest in peace, Zoro. I love you.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
2 whole years. I still feel empty. I know you won't come back, ever, but it's just so not fair. You just left without saying goodbye.
I'm fucking crying again. I thought I'd—
I thought I'd get over it already, that I wouldn't—
Wouldn't cry, when I think of you, but this is just so fucking hard.
I've spent a huge chunk of my life with you. Loving you.
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I still love you so much. I wish you were still here. Good-night.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Hi, Zoro. Happy birthday. Sorry I'm a day late. I told you some time ago that Zeff is giving me the restaurant, right? Well, yesterday was the day. It got really busy, since the guys wanted to throw a party. I almost forgot to pay for your phone bill.
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Everyone misses you. Luffy especially. Every time it's your birthday or, or anything, he just stops functioning. He doesn't talk to people, he doesn't eat much. None of us are coping very well. I don't know if things can ever go back to normal anymore.
I know you don't believe in the afterlife and all that shit, but as someone who does... I hope you're doing better than us. Man, we're messy fucks.
I need to go to work, so... bye. I love you, Zoro.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Hey.
Today Usopp said I'm clearly doing better. And I guess... I guess I am. I didn't want to admit it to you, because it'd mean I'm fucking moving on from you—
Shit, I'm—
Even the thought of it is making me upset. I'm sorry I'm such a goddamn mess. I don't know what you'd want. You're fucking dead. I can't ask you. Some people said moving on will be better. Maybe I should take Rei's advice of connecting with a therapist.
I'll try checking it out. I'm sorry if this isn't what you'd want. I love you.
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Sanji, text me instead. Thank you. Love you.
Three years. I'm doing a lot better. No thanks to therapy, I quit that shit the moment they told me to forget you. But I guess I'm finally, finally accepting reality.
Zeff also found out I've been paying your bills this entire time. He looked sympathetic, but I know he's mad too. It's a waste of money. I can't blame him.
So would it be alright? If this is my last voicemail to you?
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I think, I think I'll cut myself some slack this once. Since this will be the last time I'll ever get to call you.
You know, after you left, for a month and a half, all I did was cry. And after that I thought I'd move on, but I've just, I've spent so long pining after you and wanting to be with you. Nearly ten years, Zoro. And the time I got with you was a year and a half. It's fucking unfair.
Even though you were there when I made all kinds of promises about my dreams, you weren't there to see them actually happen. You weren't there to see me becoming the owner of a restaurant, you weren't there to see me rebrand Baratie to All Blue. And I promised that I'd reach my goals so all of my friends could see that I'm capable of it. I promised that especially you would see that. But fate had other plans for us, it seemed.
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I've… had years to think about what to do with my life without you, and I've come to the conclusion that even though I'll live on with my life, I'll never be half as complete as I was with you. There's a hole that only you fill, and I know it's fucking sappy and corny, but it's true and I want to say it to you because I'm not sure you even knew how much you meant to me. How much you still mean to me.
And in those years, I've also had time to think about what my life would've been like if you were still here. When Nami and Vivi got married… even though I was happy for them, I couldn't stop thinking about how it would've been to marry you. I think it wouldn't be any different from when we lived together, but I'd be able to see a ring on your finger, and a ring on mine, and know that you're as mine as I am yours.
I wanted to get married to you, Zoro. And it— it hurts worse when I know you wanted that too. Can you imagine how I felt when I found those engagement rings you got while I was sorting out your shit? It even had our names fucking engraved on them. I cried. For weeks.
I've acknowledged that things will never be the same, and it doesn't have to be. No matter how much I pray, you won't come back. And that's… fine. However hard it may be to just keep on living, somewhere along the way it'll get easier. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but it's better than to kill myself slowly by mourning over you until God knows when.
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I'm rambling. I don't want to hang up just yet. I know I have to, but.
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This is hard.
I love you, Zoro. I love you. Goodbye.
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