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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?

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
First
Maybe
Meets
Girl
Adam
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Wild
Back
University
Wells
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Firsts
Somebody
Come
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