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you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Think
Thinking
Peaceful
Painful
Silence
Really
Would

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