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...TIME: You were 14 before you learned the truth about your mother's death. How did you find...
...when people would say, "are you related to Sylvia Plath Hughes?" I'd go, "well, I can't imagine why you'd think that," and pass it off. I was very shy about it. But on this occasion, I couldn't help myself. I said, "oh, that's my mother." And she looked out of the window and she said, "but it can't be. Sylvia Plath committed suicide and your mother is walking across the forecourt with your father." [My father and stepmother] had just dropped me off. And I remember sitting on the bed, so shocked. I didn...
...written on the book, but I knew she had been telling the truth. Then an article was published. My father actually took me and my brother out of school so that he could tell us the truth before we read it in the papers that our mother had committed suicide. Because up until then, he had always told us she died of pneumonia. I asked him once, "Why did you do that?" He said, "What do you tell a three-year-old who doesn't understand?" And he said, "Once having told a three-year-old something that they could...
...your poetry you write openly about the need for a mother...
...Which is very, very strong. I'm a little ashamed of it, too, because it does open a weakness, but I've met a lot of people and I have friends who, if they've lost their father or lost their mother, they also have a need for that parent. There is always a susceptibility for somebody who steps into that place...