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If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

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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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