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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Went
Fell
Shaft
Almost
Rings
Tin
Four
Mines
Blew
Five
Seven
Rolled
Life
Car
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Mine
Noticed
Motorway
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Ring
Caravan
Nobody
Holiday
Caravans

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