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What is love? I thought I knew.My husband, Lee and I once shared a devotion to peace and environmentalism, but these commonalities only offered a modicum of stability. Our marriage eventually became a fragile truce, then a battle for respect. I was forced to fight for my separate identity. Our relationship reopened emotional wounds from the past. Looking for love outside myself resembled a trap. Love had to come from within. In this creative memoir, I reflect on both tender and painful scenes as I attempted to heal and change the trajectory of my life. Deciphering what growth is possible within my many relationships pushed me to consider what I would actually be willing to accept. I explored various avenues of self-healing and took many errant steps on this journey of learning to love myself. *******Surprises abound in my true story: some transformative, and others tragic. I invite you to join me in observing the healing beauty of nature, experiencing the miraculous, and uncovering some of the sad truths that we often blindly participate in. After all, opening our eyes to realities gives us the knowledge to make better choices.

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Marcia's honest and lyrical exploration of abuse and healing inspired me to examine and change my own life. Kristine Carter, published poet, playwright, and essayist Marcia's story is one every woman should read. It's a story of love, determination, finding self-worth, setting personal boundaries, and surviving unspeakable tragedy. The story was especially compelling for me because I too lived in New Hampshire: The juxtaposition of the northern climate with the details of Marcia's story is compelling. Her book highlights how relationships are not always predictable and how tragedy can overtake anyone of us if we're not perceptive along the way. Carla Tesconi St. Gelais, Teacher of English, Poet, Creative Writer

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Marcia Winters grew up working along with her family on a dairy and crop farm in southwest Ohio. She attained a degree from two Quaker colleges: Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio and Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She and her husband, in the 1990s, shared a concern for the environment, eventually building a passive-solar earth-sheltered home in West Virginia. She operated her own whole foods bakery, With Good Reasons, in Keene, New Hampshire from 2007 to 2016. Then she return to the Appalachian mountains choosing a simpler life. When she wrote this book, she was working part-time with an Organic farm. You could bump into her taking long hikes in the mountains of southwest Virginia with her Jack Russell Terrier, dancing, or volunteering in her community.

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