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To be in love

To simply love someone does not compair to being in love with someone.

loving someone is an action, a choice one can make for themselfs. this alone can not be simply relied apon.

Being in love with someone is all consuming and will swallow you whole. It does not ask for reason and is all someone could need.

Loving someone is a choice, a switch that can be controlled. Loving is giving the ...

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The recipe for a love cake

For this cake you will need:

225g of soft warm hugs,

225g of golden praises,

4 large helpings of kisses,

1/2 an hour for them a day,

1 tsp of consideration,

225g of self appreciation,

And a splash of care.

For a love cake is not love itself rather the ingredients that are mixed together for it.

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If soul mates do exist.

If soul mates do exist,

They are not just simply found.

They are beautifully grown from the ground.

 

They are grown as strong as an oak tree

But equally as fragile as a dandelion blossum.

 

If soul mates do exist,

Then the other will always persist.

For not one person is whole without another.

 

If soul mates do exist,

They are not easy,

They are not togethe...

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