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When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Grows
Face
Faces
Comes
Defines
Honestly
Deny

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