We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that ha…

David Levithan
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We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. ✨ David Levithan (2011). The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel, p.11, Macmillan
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