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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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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Okay
Room
Rooms
Says
Went
Deodorant
May
Sebastian
Back
Nervous
Really
Glad

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