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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.

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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
Make
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Adam
Missing
Breakfast
Doors
Drunk
Noodles
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Lots
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Friends
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Forget
University
Irresponsible
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