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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save 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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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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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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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 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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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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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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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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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