Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched …

Sylvia Plath
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Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings, p.95, Faber & Faber
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