The Mother I Never Knew
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This is a book for the women who were never allowed to speak their truth-
and the daughters who heard it anyway, in silence, in stares, in the spaces between.
First Heartbeat, Last Word is a sacred collection of poems born from grief, memory, and the ache of being misunderstood. Through ancestral echoes, mother wounds, and the soft rebellion of survival, this book carries what was too heavy for generations before us to hold.
These are poems for the ones who were rewritten.
The ones who burned quietly.
And the ones who came after-
to remember, to question, and finally, to say it out loud.
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