On My Own is a collection of personal poems that explore the experience of shifting into a solitary life-and not by choice. After the devastating end of her thirty-four-year marriage, author Deborah Russell worked to adjust to a new chapter on her own. A subsequent romance and subsequent ending drove the lesson home. She wrote this collection over the course of her evolution into a new version of herself, living for the first time according to her own terms. The poems are filled with melancholy but also with hope.
Over time, Deborah has learned that she gets stronger every day. And of the value of never giving up. Her poetry carries an underlying message about the value of helping one another, and how that has the power to lift a person out of darkness....
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