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Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Stories
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Human
Tales
Humans
Everyday
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Ones
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.
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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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