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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Always
Bloom
Threshold
Inevitably
Amazed
Insurmountable
Seem
Humbled
Risk
Beforehand
Suffering
Freeing
Seems
Crossed

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