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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. St. Augustine ...when i just hear the news today felt that the joy of my life had been held with chains and there were you to hold with your arms wide open ........ we didn't run parallel but had completed the circle of life to hold both in the the arms when it was just open ..... love you till the last breath and will still hold you with arms wid open ...