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Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Buoyed
Anchored
Words
Needs
Time

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