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To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Need
Forgery
Real
Untrained
Needs
Mistaken
Love
Master
Easily
Masters
Painting
Eye

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Love. She looked at me with those blue eyes. Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.
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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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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.
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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.
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Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
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