why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash? (David Levithan)

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

David Levithan

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