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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Hear
Grows
Feel
Feels
Direction
Like
Dare
Sun
Listening
Grow

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