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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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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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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 made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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