Love Stories Through the
Generations —
our feature: LOVE
Six Great P C People Tell about the Magical Experience of
Marrying Their Soul Mates
By MARSHA BROWN
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The words love and romance are sometimes used interchangeably because
they’re so closely related but actually, love and romance are two very different
things, but well, together they make an unforgettable impact.
Love is usually explained as an intense emotion of deep affection, attach-
ment, and devotion. It is said that love is one of those unexplainable things
that is best experienced rather than described.
Love is often characterized as a powerful attraction that inspires people to
make extraordinary personal commitments and sweeping sacrifices.
Love isn’t limited to just humans and their feelings for each other. Love
reaches out to spirit beings and extend to animals, inanimate objects, tasks
and ideas. Love can exist in numerous forms and can be manifested in
countless ways, taking many forms that include plutonic, unconditional, and
romantic love. But, it’s romantic love that tends to most often inspire poetry,
paintings, novels and screenplays. Romantic love has a mystery about it that
the other forms of love usually lack.
British novelist Elinor Glyn said it best, “Romance is the glamour which
turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
It’s hard to predict who will fall hard for whom.
For this article, we’ve interviewed both men and women, asking each one to
tell us about the wonderful experience of marrying the love of their lives.
Who doesn’t adore a great love story? Even the most cynical among us
loves a great romance.
“No one is more romantic than a cynic,” author Nora Ephron, creator
of When Harry Met Sally said. “I do think that you don’t become cynical or
‘unsentimental’ unless there’s a core of romanticism or sentiment that’s had
a few chips nicked into it.”
I don’t know about you, but personally I’m taking Nora’s word for it.