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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.
Jenny Downham
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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
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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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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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