Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends–an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels–and it is that–comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there. David Levithan
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