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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Film Actor
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Inner and Outer London
Equally
Different
Unimportant

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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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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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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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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
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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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The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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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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I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.
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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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. . . 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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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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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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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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