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Month / January 2012

Mad Girl’s Love Story

By Jean Copeland

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. The first line of Olivia’s favorite poem by Sylvia Plath drifts into her head as she staggers down the black hall, waiting for the little peach pill to work its magic.

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