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The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Skin
Skins
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Bleachers
Waiting
Dripping
Porch
Quietly
Beneath

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