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    How Long Your Roots Have Grown
    How Long Your Roots Have Grown
    How Long Your Roots Have Grown
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    How Long Your Roots Have Grown

    By Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

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    How Long Your Roots Have Grown is a mental health journey across childhood trauma, deep-seated anxiety, and long-lived fears. Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos reappropriates the structure of the Ancient Greek tragedy to lure the reader into a dark fairy tale of memorie

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuerencia Press, LLC
    Release dateFeb 22, 2023
    ISBN9798869361714
    How Long Your Roots Have Grown
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    Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

    Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos holds a BA and an MA in English & American Studies. She chooses to see her work as the kind a Greek Ophelia would write had she navigated a world of boundless horror. She writes to make sense of the obscure places where reality meets the surreal.

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      How Long Your Roots Have Grown - Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

      How Long Your Roots Have Grown

      How Long Your Roots Have Grown

      Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

      QUERENCIA PRESS

      © Copyright 2023

      Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

      All Rights Reserved

      No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.

      No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with the written permission of the author.

      Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      ISBN 978 1 959118 21 3

      www.querenciapress.com

      First Published in 2023

      Querencia Press, LLC

      Chicago IL

      Printed & Bound in the United States of America

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Preface

      MIDNIGHT

      Prólogos

      Episódio

      Stásimon

      Exodos

      MIDDAY

      Prólogos

      Episódio

      Stásimon

      Exodos

      DUSK

      Prólogos

      Episódio

      Stásimon

      Exodos

      Author’s Note

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Introduction

      The Dark cannot trap you. It cannot harm you. Have you ever thought of cracking the door open and whispering your story to the wind?

      When Light enters and you smell the moss on the other side, you’ll know. You’ll know how far you’ve come.

      Love yourself like you’re the most ancient and mystical tree in the world.  Take care of your roots and needles—listen to them, they

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