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Rooms We Once Lived In by is not a collection you consume—it is a collection you enter. Each story opens like a door to a quiet interior space, inviting you to sit with memories, silences, and emotions we often keep carefully folded away. These are not dramatic rooms filled with noise; they are intimate spaces shaped by grief, identity, loss, love, mental health, and the slow, tender process of becoming. What makes the book remarkable is its restraint. 13-year-old Nadeera Taneja writes with an emotional intelligence far beyond her years, trusting stillness over spectacle. Her prose is lucid and lyrical, allowing metaphors and pauses to do as much work as dialogue or plot. Pain is never sensationalised, nor is healing rushed. Instead, the stories honour unresolved emotions—the kind that stay with us long after an experience has ended. Thematically, the collection moves through childhood, adolescence, and emotional inheritance with great sensitivity. Rooms become symbols: of motherhood remembered in absence, of minds that adapt to survive, of love that continues beyond loss. There is no promise of neat closure here, only acceptance—something softer than hope, closer to breath. The overall vibe is gentle, reflective, and quietly devastating in the best way. You will likely pause between stories, not because they are heavy, but because they ask to be felt. Rooms We Once Lived In reminds us that healing does not mean erasing the past—it means acknowledging the rooms we carry inside us, and daring to step into them with compassion.

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This post was published on 27th December, 2025 by Khyati on her Instagram handle "@bookish.fame (Khyati)". Khyati has total 30.4K followers on Instagram and has a total of 1.3K post. Khyati receives an average engagement rate of 0.46% per post on Instagram. This post has received 13 comments which are lower than the average comments that Khyati gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile.