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He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Disappear
Ordinary
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Idea
Beautiful
Ideas
Disappears

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