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There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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Effortlessly
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This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.
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What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
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I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.
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..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.
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