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This reads as a line about sleep as refuge. The appeal is not only rest, but the chance to step into a world where feeling becomes possible again, even if only in dreams. It lands in a period of exhaustion or loneliness, when sleep feels less like routine and more like the one place the mind can soften.
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About Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model, active in the 1950s and early 1960s. She became known for comic blonde-bombshell roles and for her status as a major sex symbol of the period. She was a top-billed film star for a decade, and her screen image came to stand for the era's sexual revolution. By the time of her death in 1962, her films had grossed $200 million.
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Books by Marilyn Monroe
Fragments
2010