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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Novelist
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Betrayed
Awful
Lonely
Talk
Body
Feel
Feels
Thing

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