Too Fragile to Hold
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Last published Sat, May 7, 2022
"Bold from outside, but Fragile from inside."
That's what described Emily Campbell, a 19 year old who has been through a lot of family drama and still going through it.
Parents divorced and one of the parent having a complicated life and ultimately having to grow up without real support, no one wants drama like this in their lives but this totally describes Emily's life.
Emily lives with her mom and her brother and has a luxurious life, but happiness wasn't really a part of her life.
Her mom really didn't give Emily and her brother what a mother usually does, love .
Emily knew that she couldn't trust her mother to raise her and her brother with love, so she took up the family responsibility on her shoulders, not financially but in a way she could raise her brother with love and happiness.
She takes few decisions which might change her life. She decides to take her brother and stay at her dad's. This one decision brought a huge change in her life.
She met a person with whom she could be her true self , a person who brings the best out of her, a kind of person she always wanted by her side.
Follow Emily Campbell in this book and find out how she handles everything that life throws at her.
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