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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

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
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Head
Sickness
Rolled
Sides
Closed
Fade
Four
Torture
Leafs
White
Rising
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Shivering
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Wave
Wet
Tiles
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Chamber
Limp
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Fades
Squeezed
Great
Feet
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Glittering

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