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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Hard
Beginning
Forever
Without
Enough

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Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.
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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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I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
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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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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.
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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 occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
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Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
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I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
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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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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.
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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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An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
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