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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Instead
Easy
Feel
Invisibility
Feels
Painfully
Would
Ignored
Visible
Entirely
Invisible

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