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On a December night in 2022, Walter Copenhagen — eighty years old, alone, and still thinking about the woman he lost sixty years ago — drove his car off a highway in northern Colorado.
He did not die. He dreamed.
For eighteen months, Walter lived the life he had always wanted. He married Ethel Hammond. He raised their son. He served, and came home, and grew old beside the woman who had never left his mind. It was the most complete thing he had ever known.
Then he woke up.
Now eighty-two, Walter must learn to live in the world he actually has — a son he never knew existed, a daughter-in-law he has never met, and Ethel, still alive, who remembers him as the boy who left and never came back.
Some men spend their whole lives wishing for a second chance.
Walter Copenhagen got one. The question is what he does with it.

Thought processThought processHere it is - copy and paste this into the IngramSpark bio field:Jackie L. Smith is a United States Navy veteran and the author of more than a dozen novels spanning romance, thriller, young adult fantasy, and family drama. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, he brings to his fiction a lifetime shaped by military service, hospital administration, and years of work supporting veterans and their families.Smith's novels are grounded in the values he lived - duty, loyalty, sacrifice, and the enduring strength of family. Whether writing about soldiers caught in international conspiracies, young men coming of age on the American frontier, or an elderly widower given an impossible second chance at the life he always wanted, Smith writes characters who face their hardest moments with quiet courage and hard-won wisdom.The Life He Dreamed represents one of his most personal works - a meditation on memory, regret, and what it means to be given something back you thought was gone forever. The story of Walter Copenhagen, an eighty-year-old man who spends eighteen months in a coma dreaming of the life he might have lived, is at once a love story, a family reunion, and a question every reader must eventually answer for themselves: is it ever too late?Smith's catalog includes titles across a range of genres, from the western adventure of Hank Blankenship to the geopolitical thriller The Customs Conspiracy, reflecting a writer equally at home with action and intimacy, history and the present day.A resident of eastern Kentucky, Smith continues to write full time, drawing on the landscape, the people, and the stories of Appalachia as a constant source of inspiration.