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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
People
Remain
Memories
Slips
Left
Sand
Stills
Acknowledge
Still
Skin
Time
Sticks
Life
Skins
Like
Fingers

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