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At 38, Jody DeFilippo suffers a sudden stroke that fractures her life into two distinct eras: Before and After. In the Before, she is a young mother who clawed her way out of a turbulent childhood, was working hard and believed she had finally reached stability. In the After, she can no longer trust her own memory. The memoir follows her through the disorienting early days of recovery - the hospital rooms, the humiliations, the dark humor that becomes a lifeline - and into the long, nonlinear process of rebuilding her identity. As she relearns who she is, she also confronts the emotional wreckage she had long outrun: the teenage mother who grew up too fast, the woman who never felt ""enough,"" and the mother, terrified her daughters will remember her as broken. Through therapy and the relentless honesty of her daughters, Jody begins to reconstruct a life that is not a return to Before, but something new. The memoir explores the grief of losing a former self, the unexpected clarity that comes from survival, and the quiet, stubborn hope that emerges when everything else has been stripped away. The Girl Fractured is a story about identity, resilience, and the complicated beauty of rebuilding a life you never expected to live.

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