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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Thinking
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Hymns
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Parties
Shame
Party
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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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