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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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When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.
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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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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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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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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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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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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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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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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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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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We make patterns, we share moments.
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I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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