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Thank you We sneak sylvia plath allah shmoop we all

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have that one annoying friend who suffers from chronic overshare

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itis symptoms include play by play description of vowel movements

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and a knack for turning innocent chats into something your

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anti virus software tries to block Sure you could ditch

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her and get with a new crowd but then you'd

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miss out on all the juicy stuff Well sylvia plath

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practically invented the concept of tm i sex madness drugs

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No topic was off limits All that controversial subject matter

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was a big deal during the conservative nineteen fifties and

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sixties but maybe she was onto something with her tell

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all style Because these days it seems like oversharing is

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where it's at plenty of people are taking up a

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pen or a keyboard and putting their thoughts and feelings

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out there for all to seek often in the form

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of a blogged in plath influence the personal blog's of

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today Well confessional poets like glass like to shed light

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on the ugly truths of human life Instead of choosing

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family friendly subjects like nature and patriotism or hiding behind

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a protagonist blast took aim at the topics everyone else

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Was too chicken to write about Lady lazarus for example

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takes on suicide and holocaust imagery and daddy consent domestic

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abuse Other authors might hide their dirty laundry but flat

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proudly wears it to work fast forward a few decades

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and we can see the effect she might have had

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on future generations of writers Several high profile blogged writers

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of chief semi stardom by sharing their personal business with

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the world weatherby armstrong the author of deuce dot com

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discusses hot button topics like religion post partum depression and

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her lame co workers or actually ex coworkers That last

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part kinda got her fired Been slippy is another popular

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open diary on the daily insanity of motherhood Now don't

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you feel bad for ducking out of mom's kiss this

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morning What do you think seeing a connection There are

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tons of logs out there like this Did plast start

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a trend by inviting in noisy parkers or would we

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have eventually gotten there without her shmoop amongst yourself and 00:02:12.95 --> [endTime] share you've got mail

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