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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Love
Liars
Shouldn
Losing
Afraid
Stay
Someone
Anything
Make
Liar

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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.
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Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.
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