This is not a book about healing. It's about the way I was made and the pieces I've had to live with. It begins with the part of me that strikes first, how I've learned to hurt people before they can hurt me. It moves into the masks I've worn since childhood, the way I learned to perform safely while hiding the most important parts of myself. It grows into the voice I had to fight for, the beliefs I built so I'd never lose it again. And it ends with the woman who shaped me, both the sharpest edges and the softest parts, proving that not all abusers are strangers and not all love is safe. Every page is a confession. Every poem is proof I survived long enough to write it down. There's no redemption here, only the truths I've carried and the way they still live inside me.
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