Shakespeare said, “When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” Erich Segal said, “Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” And a lot of other people have said lots of other things about love.  What all the stories and words and experiences teach us is that we cannot define love and all we do know about it is that every love story has an ending that, at the outset, we cannot predict. Some are bittersweet; some are sweet. Some—works in progress—are open-ended.

Here, in celebration of Valentine’s Day, is one of each.

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