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I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Rooms
Suspected
Present
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Hotel
Happens
Rarely
Something
Meant
Time
Exist
Beginning
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