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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.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
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Inner and Outer London
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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life
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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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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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I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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