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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Become
Fictions
Expectations
Especially
Fiction
Dangerous
Create
Stories

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