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Two men in love. A world ready for change.
THE WAY FROM ME TO US is the story of two pioneers. It's the trueaccount of a love that began nearly 50 years ago in a Nashville gay bar calledThe Other Side. It was 1977, when coming out could mean you lost everything.Your job. Your friends. Your family.
Mike and Ted were all too aware of the risks at the bar that night. It wasliterally a step to the other side for Mike, who was nowhere near as acceptingof his true self as Ted was of his. "I like being gay," Ted told him. "I'd liketo find somebody who likes being gay with me."
Mike accepted the challenge. With no instruction manual, the two ofthem staked out a life together at a time when such things "just weren't done."Theirs is a story of two men battling the toughest challenges, some external,some that sprang from within. It's the story of the triumph of an undeniablelove that has lasted nearly half a century.
This uplifting memoir will move and inspire you. It's living proofthat, no matter how vehemently the world works against it, love wins.
Mike Coleman
Mike Coleman knew he had the writing itch when he produced a newsletter for his fourth-grade class at McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tennessee. A journalism major in college, he later won awards for news writing, for his work as a writer for a nonprofit organization and for his work with an ad agency specializing in the technology industry.
He also won awards as an independent writer, editor and branding consultant in the latter part of his 45-year career. During that time, he authoredAn Aquarium for Georgia: Commemorating the Construction of the Georgia Aquarium, a coffee table book commissioned by the Brasfield & Gorrie construction firm. He retired in 2020.
He has had a lifetime interest in creative writing. His short storyWorse than Murdertook Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest's 74thannual writing competition in 2005. Another story,The Night Watch,is featured in the "Stories Worth Talking About" section of the children's story site Bedtime-Story.com.
He and his husband live in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike writes frequently about their life and travels together in his blog at www.mikecolemanauthor.com.
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