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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Soul
Hope
Person
Everyone
Human
Doesn
Humans
Else
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Beautiful
Suffered
Good
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World
Persons
Awful

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