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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.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Laughing
Lots
Instructions
Friends
Miss
Lectures
Forget
University
Irresponsible
Look
Door
Pot
Looks
Laugh
Instruction
Make
Except
Adam
Missing
Breakfast
Doors
Drunk
Noodles

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