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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

David Levithan

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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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Mean
Roughly
Something
Asleep
Spent
Thousand
Already
Five
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