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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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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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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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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 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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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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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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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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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 made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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