When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. Oh, sure …

Sylvia Plath
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When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. Oh, sure you know, the photographer said. She wants, said Jay Cee wittily, to be everything. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.54, Hamilton Books
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When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. Oh, sure you know, the photographer said. She wants, said Jay Cee wittily, to be everything. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.54, Hamilton Books

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