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Title: A Heart That Loved Twice: Andrina Lejon's "My Two Soulmates" Is a Poetry Collection Unlike Any Other

United States, 19th May 2026 - Most people count themselves lucky to find one great love. Andrina Lejon found two. Her new poetry collection, My Two Soulmates, covers nearly sixty years of living inside that rare and extraordinary fortune, and what happens when both loves are taken away.Lejon does not tiptoe around anything. She married Gerrit when she was young, barely past girlhood, after he showed up at her door and her mother told him to leave. He came back. They built a life, had children, became the kind of couple people stopped distinguishing between. Then Primo entered her life and opened something else entirely, a faith she did not know she was missing. One man gave her roots and courage, the other offered faith. She lost them both.The early poems sit in the good years. Lejon writes about meeting Gerrit at twelve, the way two people can grow so close that their separateness stops making sense. These pages feel lived in, not decorated. You get the impression she wrote them with her shoes off, sitting on the kitchen floor.Then the ground drops. Gerrit gets sick, and Lejon walks the reader through it without looking away. She writes about the newspaper nobody picks up anymore, the winter jacket still hanging by the door, one place setting where there used to be two. She puts you in a hospital ward where everyone knows what is coming and nobody is ready. These are not big sweeping grief poems. They are quiet, close, and unflinching.It's not just sadness that shapes this book. Between lines about what's gone, threads appear, thin ones, pulling toward wider spaces. Not prayers exactly, but speech aimed upward, outward, into gaps where meaning might live. Voices stretch past names, touch something nameless yet familiar. Old rhythms show up here, like breath borrowed f...

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