Very complicated.
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Amazing, all-consuming, overwhelming.
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Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
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Warmth and confidence.
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There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
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