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There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Life
Eventual
Sudden
Living

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