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We need experience to release what matters.

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Release
Matters
Experience
Matter
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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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