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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?

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
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River
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Girl
Kiss
Math
Swims
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Rivers
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Cold
Jump
Boys
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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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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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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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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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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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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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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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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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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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