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Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

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Stephen Levine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 17
Died: 2016
Died: January 17
Poet
Screenwriter
the United States of America
Stephan Levine
Partners
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