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We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Might
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Children
Afraid
Never
Told
People
Knew
Child
Lain
Two
Skin
Someone
Stranger
Together
Skins

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