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Fourteen chapters, from the love that started it all to giving everything.


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This story is not only about what I have lost. It is about what I have carried.

— Sandra Mubanga, from the Preface

You do not move on from the people who shape you. You move forward with them — in memory, in habit, in the ways they have altered how you see the world.

— from the Preface

Contents

01The Love That Started It All1
02The Day Everything Changed17
03My Mother, the Warrior36
04Success, Men, and Survival57
05The Girl I Was Supposed to Be72
06The Secret I Carried Alone87
07Pain, Blood, and Birth112
08Becoming a Mother at Sixteen128
09Between Loss and Growth168
10Leaving Home for a Better Life206
11Hustle, Survival, and Sacrifice237
12The Man I Thought Was My Future262
13A House That Was Never Mine297
14Giving Everything, Losing Myself328

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Read Sandra Mubanga's story.

The Weight of Loving is her debut memoir, available through Elite Author Publishing — a true account of loss, motherhood, and the endurance it takes to keep going anyway.

ISBN 9798190104967 · Published by Elite Author Publishing