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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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…Her words were a balm, a gentle caress on the raw wounds left by the boys, by the unspoken judgments that permeated my days. But even as I clung to her comfort, a seed of unease had been planted. The world outside our small, safe haven was a place of whispers and shadows, a place where being different was a dangerous thing. And I was beginning to understand, with a child’s dawning, painful clarity, that I was different. The journey to understanding what that meant, and to finding my own light within those shadows, had just begun.