because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Pa…

Sylvia Plath
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because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.94, Hamilton Books
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because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.94, Hamilton Books

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