Dare to Dream

Michael Allen Harrison was my first true love. The man I wanted to marry and did.

We had come from distinctly different backgrounds and had grown up in opposite parts of the country, but against all odds, we fell in love and got married. Like any young couple, we had dreams of a promising future and visualized growing old together happily ever after.

The road was rocky from the very beginning though, and as a starry-eyed young woman, I was unprepared for Mike's detachment, withdrawal, and hei...