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Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

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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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Young
Still
Better
Life
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Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.
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I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
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He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.
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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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Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.
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