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A little bedtime story:
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, the first child of Aurelia and Otto Plath. When Sylvia was eight years old, her father died - an event that would haunt her remaining years - and the family moved to the college town of Wellesley. By high school, Plath's talents were firmly established; in fact, her first published poem had appeared when she was eight. In 1950, she entered Smith College, where she excelled academically and continued to write; and in 1951 she won Mademoiselle magazine's fiction contest. Her experiences during the summer of 1953 - as a guest editor at Mademoiselle in New York City and in deepening depression back home - provided the basis for The Bell Jar. Near that summer’s end, Plath nearly succeeded in killing herself. After therapy and electroshock, however, she resumed her academic and literary endeavors. Plath graduated from Smith in 1955 and, as a Fulbright Scholar, entered Newnham College, in Cambridge, England, where she met the British poet, Ted Hughes. They were married a year later. After a two-year tenure on the Smith College faculty and a brief stint in Boston, Plath and Hughes returned to England, where their two children were born.
Plath had been successful in placing poems in several prestigious magazines, but suffered repeated rejection in her attempts to place a first book. The Colossus appeared in England, however, in the fall of 1960, and the publisher, William Heinemann, also bought her first novel. By June 1962, she had begun the poems that eventually appeared in Ariel. Later that year, separated from Hughes, Plath immersed herself in caring for her children, completing The Bell Jar, and writing poems at a breathtaking pace.
A few days before Christmas 1962, she moved with the children to a London flat. By the time The Bell Jar was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, in early 1963, she was in desperate circumstances. Her marriage was over, she and her children were ill, and the winter was the coldest in a century. Early on the morning of February 11, Plath turned on the cooking gas and killed herself.
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Have some quotes.
"Today I'm gonna lose my mind. I've already decided." - Kate Goslin"To perceive is to suffer." - Aristotle"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. " - William Shakespeare"For a minute there, I lost myself....." - Thom Yorke (Radiohead; Song: "Karma Police"; Album: OK Computer)"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." - A. Sachs"The best you can is good enough...." - Thom Yorke (Radiohead; Song: "Optimistic"; Album: Kid A)"Nothing hurts like nothing at all...." - Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie; Song: "President of What?"; Album: Something About Airplanes)"[Denial] is like a big white elephant standing in the middle of the room. Everyone sees it, everyone knows it's there, but everybody's too afraid to say anything." - Jinny E. Ruhlman"I do believe my raven could hold a more educated conversation then you my good man." - Sean"Oops, lol." - Jesus H. Christ"Well...a lot of times, people can't understand what other people are going through...but you know, if you love everyone, no one can hurt you. You can forgive everyone. You can't control what other people do to you, or if they sacrifice themselves or things like that....but you can give of yourself, and love." - The Man Named Bill"People have been puzzled by the contrast: my optimism and enthusiasm for living seen against my work, which finds its beauty in images of fear, death, and the follies of the living. To me there is no contradiction: given the horrors, the brevity and the pain, an intense joy is the only rational response; dance till they drop you, exult while you can." - Dale Copeland
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It's been forever since I last talked to you.
But I wanted to tell you to have a happy birthday this year. 3nodding
And have a good day! <3
Hey!
It's been a while...
what've you been up to?
aaaawwww, thanks!
It's a very good day so far, thanks.
Hope yours turns out as well as mine does.
I will, thanks.
just wanted to stop by and say Happy Birthday!
sorry I'm late...
anyways, I hope you had a good day.
-KIKU