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    Purple Eyes
    Purple Eyes
    Purple Eyes
    Ebook72 pages27 minutes

    Purple Eyes

    By Shalight Saja

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    Purple Eyes is a collection of poetry written during a young woman's healing process after six years of abuse. It is a story of the early stages of her journey toward defining herself by who she wants to be rather than by what has happened to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShalight Saja
    Release dateApr 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301179282
    Purple Eyes
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    Shalight Saja

    Shalight Saja is a fighter and chooses to be defined as such. She is an eighteen-year-old survivor of years of physical, emotional, and sexual assault by a familial same-sex perpetrator. Yet she has been blessed by a Father who loves her, friends who support her, and pens lying atop blank paper. Shalight began writing as an outlet for venting at age twelve. As her understanding of what was happening deepened, so did her love for poetry. Venting became vocalizing, and writing became her tool to explain to herself and others what she has experienced. She does this through her collection of poetry, Purple Eyes.

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