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Does it Smile Through?: Season One
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 6 2026
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Jemma just wants to help people feel safe in their own skin. It's the only thing that keeps her from falling apart herself. Gifted with a calming touch and burdened by an uncontrollable sobbing disorder, she finds meaning in comforting others - even if the world has no space for the fragile. But after one too many doors shut in her face, Jemma's quiet breakdown becomes something bigger: a wandering, heartfelt spiral through parks, porches, gas stations, and corporate lobbies, offering kindness to strangers in a desperate attempt to hold herself together.
From the sidewalks of her old neighborhood to the glass walls of a wellness empire, Jemma's journey is about more than mental illness - it's about being painfully soft in a world built to punish the gentle. With friends who talk too loud, a son who hides the same disorder she once buried, and strangers who change her life without knowing it, Jemma keeps asking the same question: if you love people enough... does the world ever learn to love you back?
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