Four-year-old Mitch loved candy almost as much as his mom Ann did. He and Daddy had given her a beautiful heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine's Day. A few days later Mitch was eyeing it, wishing to have a piece of it. As he reached out to touch one of the big pieces, Ann said to him, "If you touch it, then you have to eat it. Do you understand?"

"Oh, yes," he said, nodding his head. Suddenly his little hand patted the tops of all the pieces of candy. "Now I can eat them all."

That is Love !
An escaped convict, imprisoned for 1st degree murder, had spent 25 years of his life sentence in prison. While on the run, he broke into a house and tied up a young couple who had been sleeping in the bedroom. He tied the man to a chair on one side of the room and his wife on the bed.

A group of professional people posed this question to a group
of 4 to 8-year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they
got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.
See what you think:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and
paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her
all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too.
That's love."
Rebecca - age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is
different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth."
Billy - age 4

LOVE: When you write poems about your partner.
LUST: When all you write is your phone number.
MARRIAGE: When all you write is checks.

LOVE: When your eyes meet across a crowded room.
LUST: When your tongues meet across a crowded room.
MARRIAGE: When you lose your child in a crowded room.

LOVE: When your heart flutters every time you see them.
LUST: When your groin twitches every time you see them.
MARRIAGE: When your wallet empties every time you see them.

LOVE: When you have concern for your partner's feelings.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you,
it is yours... If it doesn't, it was never meant to be.

But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff,
eats your food, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize
that you've set it free..... You either married it or gave birth
to it.

"What do you love most about me," a husband asked his wife, "my
tremendous athletic ability or my superior intellect?"

"What I love most about you,"
responded the man's wife, "is your enormous sense of humor."