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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Rings
Adhered
Certainty
Fastened
Fit
Stretched
Beginning
Fits
Way
Ongoing
Ring
Ending
Holds

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