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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Clouds
Sun
Grow
Grows
Light
Stills
Still
Pours
Even
Thick

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