What You Left Behind
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Last published Wed, Jun 28, 2023
At eighteen years old, the aspiring teacher lost her best friend to cancer.
At nineteen years old, the same teacher was locked in her house with her exhausting family.
At twenty, she wanted to leave.
At twenty one, she graduated college.
At twenty three, she is now a full time teacher.
Come on an adventure with an future teacher as she navigates her grief and social life during a pandemic while also going on a mental health journey. Told through a set of journal style entries, her life goes from hopeful to tragic within one year and she spends the rest of that time trying to recover. Warnings: this book discussed grief over a death of a friend due to a terminal illness and has a lot of discussions on mental health.
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