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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
Love
People
True
Care
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Things

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The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)
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If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
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Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
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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.
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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.
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she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
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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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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.
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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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A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?
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Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.
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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.
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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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One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.
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It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
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It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.
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