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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

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
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Eye
Surrounding
Moving
Emptiness
Felt
Feminism
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Hullabaloo
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Chaos
Dully
Feel
Empty
Tornado
Must
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Tornadoes
Feels
Middle
Numbness

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