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Joshua's Soul

By Jennifer Daywalt

A mother's unflinching testimony of love, loss, and the systemic failures that took her son. A story that demands to be heard.

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About the Book

Joshua's Soul is the story no mother should ever have to tell — and the story the world needs to hear.

When Jennifer Daywalt lost her son Joshua, she didn't just lose a child. She lost him to a system that was supposed to protect him — a labyrinth of mental health failures, institutional indifference, and cracks wide enough to swallow a life whole.

This book is her testament. Written with raw honesty and fierce love, Joshua's Soul bears witness to who Joshua was — not as a statistic, but as a son, a human being, a soul that mattered. It is a call to those who govern our care systems: do better.

Part memoir, part reckoning, Joshua's Soul illuminates the human cost of systemic failure and asks the question we can no longer afford to ignore: how many more?

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