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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
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What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.
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And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.
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