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It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

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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Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.
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There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
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lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.
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Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.
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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.
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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
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I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
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