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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
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Expensive
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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's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.
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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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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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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
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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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I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.
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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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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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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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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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