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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Expression
Find
Way
Life
Fork
Tuning
Forks
Sacred

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