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Love Is Grief

To give yourself to love is to leave your heart openly vulnerable that someday when you least expect it you will suffer the inevitability of loss and pain yet take the chance that it may all be worth it AP: 3rd place 2020 Submitted on April 22, 2020 for contest STRAND PICK B sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - HONORABLE MENTION Originally posted on May 19, 2019

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Date: 4/22/2020 10:45:00 PM
Such poignant words dear Line, but life without love is no life and despite the pain, love lives on in our heart forever. With kindest thoughts Ann xx
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Date: 4/23/2020 12:34:00 AM
Thanks for your lovely visit and comment, Ann.
Date: 5/23/2019 4:37:00 PM
Great pholosophy, Line Wishing you well! Panagiota
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Date: 5/23/2019 4:51:00 PM
Thanks for your most appreciated visit and comment, Panagiota.
Date: 5/20/2019 11:13:00 PM
It is worth it, as the old saying goes, its better to love and lost than to never love at all
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Date: 5/20/2019 11:24:00 PM
So very true, Timothy.
Date: 5/19/2019 9:22:00 PM
Yes! Love is a gamble, isn't it? We often leave ourselves unprotected... :) gw
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Date: 5/19/2019 9:53:00 PM
Even if it does work out... in the end there is... an end.
Date: 5/19/2019 5:57:00 PM
I am going along with Nina on this. Nina, you said it perfectly, so I ditto Nina.
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Date: 5/19/2019 6:09:00 PM
OK I ditto my comment then, Caren. LOL
Date: 5/19/2019 2:14:00 PM
Yes, the experience of another heart being shared, oppose to a lonely heart, --nice one Line, Aloha wk
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Date: 5/19/2019 2:32:00 PM
Thanks, William, for your much appreciated visit and comment.

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