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What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Learned
Differences
Alone
Knowing
Wells
Documented
Well
Lonely
Comfort
Difference

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