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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
David Levithan
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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Cynical
Sorry
York
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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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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.
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The words that matter always stay.
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I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
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placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
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