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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Hadn
Along
Simply
Trouble
Thought
Inadequate

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