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I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Path
Finally
Desire
Figure
Mean
Figures
Even
Behinds
Things
Realize
Behind
Leave
Realizing
Purposeful

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