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An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Ships
Bottom
Ocean
Weight
Sure
Submerge
Story
Sunken
Stories
Untold
Ship

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