Genetically or not, I submit that there are some kinds of love that go beyond the miles and span the years--and sometimes whole lifetimes-- because they are the unclothed, unencumbered energetic postulates of the soul in action.

'Course, if you don't believe in souls and such, why you'll have to find some other explanation.

There's a lot of short-timer love that is anchored in and perhaps due to the hunger of protoplasm for continuity and procreation (and all the physical delights that make that look so much fun from the outside!), but that's a different class of lovebug altogether.

It is my sense that at a much deeper level than that, we tie gold threads to those who share our longest, deepest goals for beauty or betterment in the world, and no matter what age or cloak they may wear, the recognition seeps in; and when it does, it sinks in at a level so deep and pure it can make your teeth fall out.

Or mebbe that's just me! :D

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