I ♥
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
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Or maybe better yet:
♪ I love you truly, truly, dear. Life with its sorrows, life with its tears. Fades into dreams when I feel you are near. For I love you truly, truly, dear.”♪ (I’ll be curious what you think of this/their/his performance. Be sure to listen! 🙂 )
And here via YouTube is the scene with Edith from All in the Family, loving Archie truly with the same song. Lord, they were funny….but wouldn’t make it in today’s world.
Which brings me to my Colorado College days – and singing that same song in a circle in our sorority. We would be alerted by our president before a chapter meeting that a candle would be passed, meaning someone amongst us had just gotten pinned or engaged. The excitement would be palpable. We would sing – and harmonize – as The Candle was passed around once – and then on the second pass-around the lucky girl would announce her pinning by blowing out the candle – to everyone’s screams of joy. A third go-around (better yet!) meant an engagement.
All I wanted in my college life was to get to blow out a candle before I graduated.
It didn’t happen.
And yet now – so many years later – I have lots of loves. Here for Valentine’s Day are 10 of them:
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