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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
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Broken
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Still
Need
Whole
Sometimes
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Heal

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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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Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.
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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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It's shocking the things we call love.
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My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
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No, Mom. I said fine. It's just your tone. Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
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I may be nervous, I say. Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant. Sebastian says.
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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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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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
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If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
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