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I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Someone
Real
Life
Unless
Learning
Else
Reality

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