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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Space
Else
Someone
Look
Fill
Come
Filled
Looks
Empty
Love
Already

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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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