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I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
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