And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.

Sylvia Plath
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The more you know about a person, the more difficult it is to imagine that something could happen to them that they would not be able to handle. For example, when someone has been married before, you might imagine that they will have a certain amount of knowledge about marriage and their partner. When someone has been in a previous relationship, it’s hard to imagine them being capable of love again. In both cases the idea of the person being vulnerable or fragile is hard to imagine.

Source: The Bell Jar

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