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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Light
Bleachers
Dripping
Porch
Bottle
Diamond
Bottles
Broken

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