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and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Poet
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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