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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

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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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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away? There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
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