Spaghetti, Lemonade and Finding Joy

By: Durfey, Carmen

A fully edited and updated version

At fifty-one years old, Carmen believed she understood who she
was until single phone call changed everything she thought she knew.

Born to a mother she had never met and adopted into a family marked by early loss, Carmen's childhood was shaped by the death of her adoptive mother at just four years old and the arrival of stepmothers who offered anything but comfort.

She formed her identify in scraps-moments of wonder, and the quiet determination to make sense of a world that never quite made room for her.

But nothing prepared her for the truth she uncovered in midlife: she was the product of rape. As carmen pieces together her origin, it reveals not tragedy, but astonishing resilience.

For anyone who has ever questioned where they came from, struggled to belong, or wondered whether their story mattered-this book offers a powerful promise: your beginning does not define your worth. Your life does.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1LK9B9S
• ISBN13: 9798272597854
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"