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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.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
California
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You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
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Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
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Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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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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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.
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You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
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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.
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Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
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This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.
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But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.
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I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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