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Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Humans
Every
Unfathomable
Life
Reveal
Meeting
Meetings
Gift
Head
Human

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