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What is love?

We'll hear Juliet Stevenson reads from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove.

Oh no, it is an ever-fixered mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.

It is the start of every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be

taken.

Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bended sickles compass

come.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of

doom.

If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Poets and artisans, singers and songwriters throughout the ages have written on the mysteries

of love and attempts to define it.

Their rhymes and metaphors, similes and allegories all crafted to help us better sort out the

complexities of love.

Well in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul was no different, but he had divine guidance.

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