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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
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Inner and Outer London
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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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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.
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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 needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.
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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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Her skin tasted expensive.
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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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