Because Love Remains

<p>Love is practical philosophical spiritual emotional intellectual limitless. Love is contradictory. Love is love. This tautology is universal so true in its simplicity and so complex in its truth. And so we return to the age-old unanswered question: What is love?</p><p></p><p>Each author in this anthology understands love differently and lives it intensely. These real stories are about real love the kind you don't see in movies: that shared dance that big move to another country that chance encounter that midlife romance that heartbreak that love so unexpected it redefines your identity that extraordinary bittersweet complicated love.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately love is in the details. It is not merely an abstract ideal to be admired but an action to be practiced nurtured and lived through both joys and struggles. These stories remind us that love is not always about grand declarations; love is a gesture love <em>is</em> every day.</p><p></p><p>So once more: let's hear it for love.</p>