Imagine yourself deeply in love. Wouldn’t you want to express exactly how you feel? What if the object of your affection does not feel the same? Do you tell them, or do you bury your pain, maybe shame, deep inside? No one is immune to emotion. There are those, however, who because of their history, sometimes with the added impact of mental illness, experience extreme highs and lows—happiness, sadness, love, hate, even grief. Inside these pages are echos…words of beauty and of pain, in celebration and in sorrow, from a three-year journey into enlightenment, truth and acceptance.