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Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

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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Planted
Fierce
Flames
Golden
Even
Lotuses
Lotus
Amidst

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