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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

David Levithan

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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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Lobster
Felt
Evolutionary
Back
Wondered
Make
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Always
Scale
Would
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Mittens
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Agile

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