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Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Problem
Handle
Distance
Relationship
Maybe

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