The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty …

Sylvia Plath
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The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.86, Hamilton Books
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The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.86, Hamilton Books

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