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And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Sheer
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Heart
Blooms
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Closes
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