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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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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, God, it's cold. Question: What's the probability they will kiss?
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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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And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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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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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.
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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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