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I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Money
School
Mini
Kind
Prom
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Wedding
Dance
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High

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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
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Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
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I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.
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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
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But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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