Before I Knew What Love Was
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Last published Sat, Oct 11, 2025
At fifteen, Sarai Bennett thought she had love all figured out.
It looked like a basketball player with a southern drawl and a smile that made the world tilt. It felt like Atlanta sunsets, inside jokes, and the promise that distance could never break what they had.
But forever doesn't always last the way you imagine it.
Years later, Sarai finds herself looking back , not to rewrite the past, but to finally understand it. Through the glow of memory and the ache of growing up, she rediscovers what love really means: not the way it begins, but the way it changes you.
Set between the golden summers of adolescence and the quiet truths of adulthood, Before I Knew What Love Was is a story about first love, distance, and finding yourself after the heartbreak fades.
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