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From: ables@mcc-db.UUCP (King Ables)
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Subject: An aside to the current discussions
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 03:39:56 EDT
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This may have been posted back when we were having the "what is love"
discussion, I don't remember, and quite frankly, I don't feel like
going back and digging through the archives to find out.  If it was,
sorry, but it really hit me where I live, especially the first sentence
and last paragraph.

I don't usually read Ann Landers unless the headline grabs me (like
this one did) but I may start.  Someone asked her to re-run something
she ran as a definition of love (I don't know if she wrote it or not):
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"Love is friendship that has caught fire.  It is quiet understanding,
mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving.  It is loyalty through good
and bad times.  It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances
for human weaknesses.

"Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future but doesn't
brood over the past.  It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations,
problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working
toward common goals.

"If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you
lack.  If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough."
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That last part sorta says it all, doesn't it?

-King
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I thought I'd found the girl of my dreams
Now it seems
This is how the story ends
She's gonna turn me down and say
Can't we be... 
Can't we be... 
Can't we be... 
Can't we be... 
Can't we be... 
Can't we be friends?
	Linda Ronstadt on "Lush Life" (w/ gender-specific alterations)