All qualities are the same – the light through the curtains, the faraway hum of traffic, the boiler rush of water. It could be groundhog day, except that my body is more tired, my skin more transparent. I am less than yesterday.
And
Adam is in the camp bed.
I try to sit up, but cant quite muster the energy. Why did you sleep down there?
He touches my hand. You were in pain in the night.
He opens the curtains just like he did yesterday. He stands at the window looking out. Beyond him, the sky is pale and watery.
we made love twenty-seven times and we shared a bed for sixty-two nights and thats a lot of love
Breakfast? he says.
I dont want to be dead.
I havent been loved this way for long enough.
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before i die Jenny Downham
Teen Fictionthis is the entire 2007 book copy-pasted from a pdf with book pages still there just so i could read it offline but if you wanna read it,,, enjoy too bc it's really good i swear The story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live...
