Peter HellerI think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
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The phrase, "I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo" is said to be a part of a poem by Sylvia Plath. It is the last line of the poem entitled "The Hill". The poem is about a man who loves his wife so much that he cannot live without her. He wants to be with her but she is in purgatory, waiting to be freed from it so they can be together.
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