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Wallach knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. When she was kicked out of school in the tenth grade, the headmistress cited
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therapy, though he too was inexperienced with dosages and once almost killed her through an overdose. She enjoyed using psychotics and described the hallucinations as having expanded her consciousness. Her therapist at the institution acknowledged her deviant sexuality in his records, noting that she
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Wallach became her primary caregiver. She did not care much for her mother; her medical records suggest that Wallach was responsible for some of the bruising on her body. She lived off of her mother's financial support since she did not have a steady job. Wallach attempted suicide in 1974 but
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Wallach began performing her poetry with a rock band she formed with two of her male musician friends. They would not let her sing her poetry, only recite it, because she was so out of tune. Wallach excited crowds with her provocative clothing and explicitly sexual poems.
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Wallach was a promising young poet, though she neglected her talents for many years as she used drugs and explored the Jewish mysticism that influenced much of her work. She didn't receive critical acclaim for her work until the late 70s.
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when she was nineteen. Hurvitz submitted the poem for her to the literary magazine. In the following months five more of her poems had been published in various magazines and periodicals, and her name was mentioned in
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