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    Dark to Light: Struggle of a Manic-Depressive
    Dark to Light: Struggle of a Manic-Depressive
    Dark to Light: Struggle of a Manic-Depressive
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    Dark to Light: Struggle of a Manic-Depressive

    By Jennifer Toth

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    Dark to Light explores one woman's journey through the darkness, madness, loneliness, and despair of manic-depression. The book opens with poetry and prose that express the darker side of the illness. It is in her darkness, however, that she learns she is not alone and that by sticking together with others caught in the same bondage as she, ther

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlympus Story House
    Release dateMar 18, 2024
    ISBN9781963851113
    Dark to Light: Struggle of a Manic-Depressive
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    Jennifer Toth

    Jennifer Toth is an American Poet who loves to write, be in nature, enjoys time with her husband and friends, can eat a ton of sushi, and really enjoys all things creative. She has been writing Poetry since age sixteen to cope with the passing of my grandfather. She studied literature at Rutgers University with her main influences being Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. She is a Born Again Christians who suffer from Manic-Depression or Bipolar Disorder as it's come to be known.

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