Thoughts on { What does love mean? | Billy (age 4) & Karen (age 7)
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‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’
‘When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little
stars come out of you.’
stars come out of you.’
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I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person — starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them — and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell — so looking at it that (way) I guess I'm not in love with you.
Jacqueline Bouvier / Letter to R. Beverley Corbin Jr. / excerpt / January 20, 1947
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