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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Life
Domesticated
Cat
Wild
Warm
Wanted
Always

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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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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 miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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