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Varieties of Love
Love was my grandparents drinking coffee together every day, love is my dad not missing a single day in his gardens with his cedar trees, yacas and plums, love is my mom crocheting every afternoon on her couch.
Love is the story that lives in my chest and I write between tears. Love is my dog waiting at the door when my son goes out, it’s my cat snuggling on my legs
Love is all the people who accept me as I am, who enter the temple of my spirit without touching anything, with respect and devotion.
Love does not need to be spoken. It vibrates, it lives, it pulses, it enlarges, it relieves, it lightens, it remains, it evolves, grows, it warms, it curls, encourages, strengthens, but it never hurts, no harm, it never moves away from yourself, you do not suffer for love and if you suffer, then it is not love.
Love is never one-way, it sprouts into tears and knows no space or time, its force is uncontrollable and highly contagious.
— Isabel Kristina Iza Santiana
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