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Love reveals itself like a nautilus shell

in all of its mathematical and symmetrical beauty.

Love is a great universal form, round and whole.

Love is a deep rich color: blue, like the ocean,

gray, like the color of stone.

Love is olive, or peach, or topaz.

Love is crystalline, clear as a bell,

with the mueling sound of babies

or the soft snoring of a mate.

Love looks back at us with the

with the trusting eye of a bird

or a small thing held in the hand.

Love is something fresh in the air,

like sent in a garden

something sweet, caught on the wind.

Something like the smell of baking bread

or the making of butterscotch.

Love is like a new day.

Love is like an ocean,

Love is something big.

Like God.