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She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.
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I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….
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She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.
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You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.
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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
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This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.
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All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.
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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's shocking the things we call love.
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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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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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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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Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.
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