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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Realizing
Makes
Hard
Much
Breathing
Cry
Realize

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