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To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Softly
Lean
Willingness
Listen
Changed
Hear

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