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All I Wanted Was Already Gone: A record of wanting after recognition

All I Wanted Was Already Gone: A record of wanting after recognition

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798247730279
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

He did not understand her in time.
That became the rest of his life.

All I Wanted Was Already Gone is a literary memoir of delayed recognition - of seeing too late what someone had been holding together quietly, faithfully, and without asking to be named for it.

This is a book about what remains after that realization: the weight of ordinary days, the silence left behind by someone once woven into everything, and the kind of wanting that survives even after return is no longer possible.

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