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Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Accepting
Present
Practice
Given
Nature
Become
Lets
Everything
Intimate
Life
Beyond

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