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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
Jenny Downham
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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Film Actor
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Inner and Outer London
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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
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Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.
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I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.
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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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