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Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Watered
Seed
Hidden
Seeds
Brings
Days
Truth
Life

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