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If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Seems
Advertising
Anything
Follow
Live
Rest
Matter
Willing
Life
Hand
Else
Beautiful
Devote
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Reveals

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