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

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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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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.
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Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day
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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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But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
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I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.
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Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together
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Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.
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What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
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Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
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I want you to spend the night, you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, Let's have sex, or Let's go to my place, or even I really want you, I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it wit
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Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
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I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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it's gonna hurt because it matters.
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I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.
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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
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