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Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Time
Waste
Fighting
Energy
Given
Truth
Doorway
Find
Doorways
Trying
Denying
Much
Resist

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