Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always b…

David Levithan
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Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside. ✨ David Levithan (2009). Love Is the Higher Law, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside. ✨ David Levithan (2009). Love Is the Higher Law, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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