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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Right
Mean
People
Shove
Door
Doors
Doubt
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Voice

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But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.
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