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Show True Love comes in Many Forms By Mary Gae Evans PAROWAN - Can anyone remember how romantic .Valentines used to be, I mean all the lace and the valentines with movable parts for a nickle. I mean we really went all out. We all sent them to our secet loves signed with' "You know how," or "Your secret admirer." ad-mirer." I've still got one I'm pondering over, got it 30 years ago from "Guess who." But I've learned over the years that poetry, hearts and candy and perfume of young love are not the symbals that define love. " The signs of real love come later. It's a sign of real love when your mate can look right at you without flinching flin-ching when you crawl out of bed in the morning with no makeup, puffy eyes, and hair that looks like a distressed porcupine. And then if you get a good morning kiss after eating liver and onions the night before, you are truly loved. two and a few stretch marks and wrinkles. And when he still refers to you as his little-gazelle little-gazelle after you trip over the broom three times before picking it up. And true love is when he trusts you with his paycheck and checkbook month after month, even though he knows you flunked addition in third grade. And you men you will know you are truly loved if she will still kiss you with enthusiasm when your face fells like a bristlecone pine, and looks like the Australian bush country. And if she just smiles sweetly while you slurp and burp your way through the ketchup you just poured on the gourmet dinner she spent three hours preparing. And if she picks up your dirty socks with more than just two fingers and does not hold them at arms length, and if, she still irons your levis. Wow, that's love. True love is when he goes to give you a kiss at night and slips off your face into the wall because of your thick layer of wrinkle . cream, and comes back for another try. It's love when he still tells you you are a fox after you develop a spare tire roll or |