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But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Think
Thinking
Sparks
Motion
Made
Something

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