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love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Novelist
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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Conjoined
Unhappily
Twins
Tied
Truth
Love

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