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This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Probably
Fifteen
House
Honey
Dossier
Without
Younger
Freeway
Giving
Mom
Freeways
People
Mere
Sibling
Friend
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Fun
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