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" Jennifer Grey has spoken out about the death of her Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze. The actress, who played Swayze&amp;#039;s on screen love interest in the 1987 movie, told ET Online that she was grateful to have had him in her life. &amp;quot;I think we will always be a couple in a lot of people&amp;#039;s minds from the experience of seeing us in that movie,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;I think the reality [of his death] is shocking to me and really sad. I have been sad for the two years he was sick. I realised I had a real depth of feeling for him that I hadn&amp;#039;t felt like I got to express to him enough. She added: &amp;quot;For that, I felt really grateful for the chance to have him in my heart for that time. In that sense it was beautiful because I felt the gift of him in a very strong way.&amp;quot; Grey also praised Swayze&amp;#039;s energy on the Dirty Dancing set and branded him &amp;quot;an original, special guy&amp;quot;.  Swayze passed away in September following a battle with pancreatic cancer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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