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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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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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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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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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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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