Raised by Fire
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This is not a love story.
It's a reckoning.
Jennifer Byrd survived the kind of heartbreak that doesn't just bruise-it reconstructs. In this poetic memoir series, she unearths the darkest years of her life: the emotional abuse that left her begging to be loved, the silence that screamed louder than fists, and the fire she found in her own voice.
Each poem is a scar.
Each stanza, a survival.
Each chapter, a truth that refused to stay buried.
If you've ever loved too hard, stayed too long, or clawed your way out of someone else's silence-this is for you.
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