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Sea Salt and Silence

Cinnamon and Toast: Sea Salt & Silence #5

Some days, there was cinnamon.

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Debra King
Jul 18, 2025
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I found old diaries from when I was thirteen—
fragments of a girl trying to survive her own story.
Sea Salt & Silence grew from those pages. A series that gives her voice back,
told through a fictionalized version of me.

Each post shares a page from her diary, followed by my reflections now—
piecing together what I once tried to forget.

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