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Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Always
Fragments
Filled
Maybe
Hope
Lost
Someone

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