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I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Doesn
Truth
Come
Crashing
Right
Finally
Something
Learned
World
Wasn
Working
Speak

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