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I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

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
Years
Beyond
Counted
Dangled
Would
Single
Telephone
Threaded
Life
Space
Telephones
Spaced
Three
Wire
Wires
Two
Road
Poles
Form
Saws
Nineteenth
Together
Couldn
Pole
Trying
Along
Nineteen

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