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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.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
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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.
Deb Caletti
Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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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.
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It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.
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It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.
Deb Caletti
Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.
Deb Caletti
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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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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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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The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.
Deb Caletti
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.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
Deb Caletti
I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.
Deb Caletti
so what brings you to the doctor today? hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching. not catching enough
Deb Caletti
Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.
Deb Caletti
If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Deb Caletti
The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.
Deb Caletti
Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
Deb Caletti
If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.
Deb Caletti
But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
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