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Finding Maria
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: John Spencer
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
They say the people who change us are the ones we find. But what if they've been waiting all along-just beyond the life we thought we were meant to live?
My name is David, and this is how I found Maria: the daughter who was never born, yet became the one thing that kept leading me back to Emily.It began with a single glance in a crowded high school hallway-the moment Emily and I stepped into the frame of a life not yet lived. But this is more than a story of first love.
Years later, while living our separate lives, something unexpected joined me. Not a ghost. Not a memory. But a presence taking shape in the quiet space between my longing and my imagination.
Her name is Maria. A daughter never born. A life never lived. A silent observer, somehow assembled at the intersection of that first glance and a destiny still in motion.
In this evocative work of literary fiction, I explore love's lingering echoes and the weight of unfinished stories-memories the soul reveals of a life that was never allowed. Through a narrative of quiet intensity, Finding Maria asks: Do we find the people who truly change us, or have they always been waiting-just beyond the life we thought we were meant to live?
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