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The Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that God's feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family. Which would you say it that our friends feel? Is it closer to philia or to agape eros, of course, being forbidden? And if so, are we gifted with something, as lovers, that others can never understand and so how did the Greeks understand it? A paradox. ΜΕ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΌ ΣΤΌΜΑ=AGAPE; is "love: the highest form of love, charity; the love of God for man and of man for God.": agápē embraces a univer

For a moment my heart hesitated. I remembered when my beloved had died, my agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when I woke up, for years expecting to find him/her there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that that side of the bed would always be empty. The moments when I would find something funny and turned to share the joke with them, only to be shocked anew that he/she was not there. The worst moment, when sitting alone at breakfast, I’d realized that I had forgotten the precise color of his/her eyes or the depth of his/her laugh; that, like the sound of a violin, they had faded into the d