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    612-822-4611

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Silhouettes in the Garden: Uncovering Who You Were Meant to Be

Silhouettes in the Garden: Uncovering Who You Were Meant to Be

Starling, Lula

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral PoetrySelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798999760326
Publisher: Gilded Garden
Published: Aug 2 2025
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What happens when the child who kept everyone else together finally asks who they might have become without the weight?

Silhouettes in the Garden: Uncovering Who You Were Meant to Be is a poetic memoir about parentification, identity, and the long reach of growing up too soon.

Through 22 poems and reflections rooted in lived experience, Lula Starling traces a childhood shaped by family instability, unspoken expectations, and the responsibility of protecting and caring for a younger brother. The collection gives language to the experience of being needed before being fully known-and to the work of separating love from obligation, responsibility from identity, and the assigned role from the self beneath it.

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