“It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell- tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.”
Sylvia Plath
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
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