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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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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
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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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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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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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