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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Spend
Wrong
Rather
Living
Energy
Keep
Right
Sorting
Life
Choosing

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