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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
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Inner and Outer London
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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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