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“When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.” quote by Tori Amos — Download Open image

“When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.”

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