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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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Love
Settings
Setting
Everyday
Limits
Choices
Everyone

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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
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