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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

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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
Breathing
Breathe
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I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, God, it's cold. Question: What's the probability they will kiss?
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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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I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away? There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
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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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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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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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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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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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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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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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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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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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Her skin tasted expensive.
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