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THE CHILD WHO WAS LEFT BEHIND
Book Description What happens when the one person you’re born expecting to love you is the one whose love you spend a lifetime searching for? Born in Jamaica, Dainty Rose entered the world longing for something every child deserves—a…
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…Walking away from that café, the weight in my chest was heavier than ever. The journey across the ocean had not brought the healing I had anticipated. The wounds, it seemed, were not confined to Jamaican soil. They had traveled with me, embedded deep within my soul. The confirmation of my mother’s distance, her inability to offer the love I had yearned for, was a bitter pill to swallow. Yet, as I stepped out into the bright, indifferent sunlight, a different kind of strength began to stir within me. It wasn’t the fragile hope of being chosen by her, but a nascent understanding, a quiet whisper that perhaps, just perhaps, the love I was searching for had to come from within.