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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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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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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 miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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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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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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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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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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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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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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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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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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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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