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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Kind
Break
Fever
Names
Remembering
Common
Closely
Water
Isolation
Others
Breaks
Stories
Listening
Remember
Listen
Enough
Name
Soothed

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