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Cyrilly expected Sylvia _ as an intelligent and ambitious young woman _ to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
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Cyrilly expected Sylvia _ as an intelligent and ambitious young woman _ to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.
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