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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.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Didn
Breathes
Make
Stir
Things
Affect
Love
Breath
Breaths
Breathe
Dazzled
Actually
Gasp
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Escapes

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