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This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
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He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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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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But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
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We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.
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I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
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Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
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You are so close, and I can’t reach you.
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