Pres and Donna Theresa Part Two: Pres Works on Healing From the Loss of Donna Theresa
By Preston McMurry as told to Virginia Pickles Jones In part one, Pres and Donna Theresa: The Love Story That Inspired A Nonprofit Combatting Domestic Violence, we watched as Preston V. McMurry, Jr. and his beloved wife, Donna Theresa, who was born in Italy, struggled through 16 years of marriage. Their marriage was burdened by the emotional and physical scars Donna carried as the of result of the horrific abuse she suffered prior to her adoption at age five by a fine American family. In pursuit of a fully compatible marriage, the deeply in love couple committed to psychological counseling. After ten years of therapy and an ongoing struggle with intimacy, they followed their therapist’s advice to travel to Italy to find Donna Theresa’s roots in Agnone, the mountaintop village where she was born in 1947. They hoped to fill in her lost memories about her childhood with insights that might improve their amorous relationship....