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It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Teetering
Insofar
Awkward
Possibility
Rather
Nothing
Something

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