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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.

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
Choice
Saying
Choices
Dies
Means
Death
Mean
Way
Illness

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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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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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Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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