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Mira was never good at letting people get close.
Behind dry replies, disappearing acts, and carefully built emotional walls was a girl who felt too much and said too little. Online, it was easier to hide. until three people slowly became part of her everyday life.
Kian, who loved her more honestly than she knew how to accept.
Dev, who made vulnerability look effortless.
And Tara, who once tried to understand her silence before becoming hurt by it.
What begins with late-night conversations, shared playlists, inside jokes, and endless notifications slowly turns into misunderstandings, distance, unread messages, and feelings no one knows how to explain.
As friendships begin slipping through her fingers one by one, Mira is forced to confront the truth she spent years avoiding:
sometimes people leave not because you stopped loving them, but because you never learned how to let them stay.
People I Never Knew How to Keep is a deeply emotional novel about overthinking, emotional avoidance, online friendships that felt painfully real, and the quiet heartbreak of losing people who once felt like home.