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Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Real
Rocks
Downtown
Trying
High
Seattle
Looking
Brooks
School
Beside
Mossy
Find
Corner
Babbling
Wells
Corners
Brook
Might
Rock
Pine
Well
Yeah
Sixth

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