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I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off

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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
Apples
Train
Green
Getting
Boarded
Eaten
Bags

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