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seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Asks
Prayers
Eighth
Hope
Fill
Slopes
Easy
Send
Slippery
Heart
Seven
Route
World
Spend
Wonders
Create
Routes
Prayer
Bottle
Complicate
Wonder
Bottles
Slope

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