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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Doesn
People
Shining
Blind
Sun
Stop
Inspirational

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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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