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Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.

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
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Necks
Thick
Silent
Hate
Speak
Neck

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