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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They told her she felt too much.
They never asked how much it cost her to survive that way.
Deliz Dello Bennett has spent her entire life absorbing everyone else's pain. She is the daughter who always answers, the friend who always understands, the woman who apologizes even when she has done nothing wrong.
To the people around her, Dello is dependable.
Inside, she is disappearing.
After years of criticism, emotional manipulation, and relationships that confuse control with love, one public breakdown forces Dello to confront the truth: her sensitivity is not destroying her.
Her lack of boundaries is.
With the help of an honest best friend, a therapist who refuses to let her hide behind apologies, and the forgotten art she once buried beneath her bed, Dello begins rebuilding her life. But healing means challenging the mother who taught her to stay silent, walking away from the man who knows exactly how to use her softest wounds, and risking the anger of everyone who preferred her when she never said no.
As Dello learns to protect her heart without hardening it, she discovers that being sensitive was never her weakness.
It may be the most powerful thing about her.
Special Dello is an emotional and inspiring novel about generational trauma, toxic love, people-pleasing, anxiety, family wounds, creativity, and the courage to choose yourself.
They called her special because they did not understand her. Now she is ready to define the word for herself.
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