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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
Everywhere
Resources
Even
Things
Never
Life
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Smallest

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