Alyssa Harper felt like she was drowning, desperately gasping for air. Grasping for a light to guide her forward. And for a purpose to keep living.
It was all too much for the 18-year-old Army brat.
The merciless bullying and ridicule at school for her sexual identity and the crime of always being the new girl, the one without a clique of close friends. And at home she said her safe space and personal refuge had become a nightmare, coping with a verbally abusive father suffering the demons of post-traumatic stress disorder.
