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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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Smallest
Everywhere
Resources
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Life

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