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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

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Seems
Contains
Ideas
Boxes
Come
Street
Something
Across
Love
Approach
Streets
Middle
Wrapped
Idea
Caution

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