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I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Truly
Sense
Ends
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Many
Things
Never
Unimportant
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