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Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Things
Hiding
Onto
Finds
Holding
Places
Darkness
Makes
Doe
Tightly

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