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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

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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I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
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Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
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The words that matter always stay.
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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
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We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.
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The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.
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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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I think of friendship in terms of love.
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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
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Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.
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And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.
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Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
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