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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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
Fall
Much
Really
Like
People
Feminism
Classic
Deep

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