Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream M…

Sylvia Plath
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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.35, Anchor
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