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With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Novelist
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Forty
Dues
Respect
Three
Fetus

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