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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
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I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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 made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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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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We make patterns, we share moments.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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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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