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The Trailing-Spouse Track

Watching Gwyneth Paltrow, as Sylvia Plath, fume at being stuck in her husband's shadow, 2 spousal hires get a jolt of recognition

By VERA TAZ

It's not that we thought the film Sylvia would have us rolling in the aisles. We just never expected that the story of a suicidal poet would remind us of our own circumstances as "trailing spouses" at Fancy University.

But then...

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