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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything I was planning on giving you something.
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fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?
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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
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Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.
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And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.
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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.
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But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.
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This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.
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A sound waiting to be a word.
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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
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We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
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It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
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