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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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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
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Love
People
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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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You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
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The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.
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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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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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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
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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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Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
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An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
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This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.
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I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
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