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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Way
Unless
Never
Dead
Books
Cruelly
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Preferred
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Hang
Persons
Desperate
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Meant
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Dying

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