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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Asks
Inspirational
Never
Love
Knowingly
Suicide
Truly
Motivational

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