Sylvia Plath · 2006
- What it is
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It stays with you · it closes in on you
- Genre
- Classics Literary
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Virgin Suicides
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It stays with you · slow and sad, in the good way
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It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
It leaves something behind · it hits hard
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