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I feel like Laura and Nick have a genuine "new" loving relationship with the physical aspect too. "I encircled the broad wrist with my fingers, and I held her."

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I know that Mel and Terri love each other, but some of the things they say to and about each other just don't seem like love. At one point, he says to Laura, "Laura, if I didn't have Terri and and if I didn't love her so much, and if Nick wasn't my best friend, I'd fall in love with you. I'd carry you off , honey." This just doesn't seem like somethin g you say to someone when you love someone else.

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I disagree with Ed's form of love. I think that it's not love but that it's toxic. Nobody should say they love someone to the extent that they would kill them. If you truly loved someone you'd want the best for them no matter who they're with, not if they're only with you. 

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I disagree with Ed's form of love. I think that it's not love but that it's toxic. Nobody should say they love someone to the extent that they would kill them. If you truly loved someone you'd want the best for them no matter who they're with, not if they're only with you. 

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"Then Terri said, "He beat me up one night. He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. He kept saying, `I love you, I love you, you *****.' He went on dragging me around the living room. My head kept knocking on things." Terri looked around the table. "What do you do with love like that?"

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I disagree with Mel saying that Ed didn't love Terri. I just think that he loved her in the way that one would love an object more than a person

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"he beat me op one night..." love should not be abusive

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I don't agree with Terri when she said that she loved Ed and he loved her. Ed "loved her so much he tried to kill her," and I think that fundamentally isn't love. Mel says that "Terri's of the kick-me-so-I'll-know-you-love-me school," and I just can't agree with that. Love is a collection of emotions, the main ones being trust and companionship and safety in another person, and there's none of that in Terri's relationship with ed.

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I think that the idea that you can love someone and still be unkind to or even hurt them is true, also that you can love someone as "pals," as Mel puts it

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I know every relationship involves arguments and fighting but I feel like Mel and Terri say stuff to each other that crosses the line very often.

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"you know something" Mel said' You guys ore our pals" love can be platonic

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The idea that abuse is love
"Terri said the man she lived with before she lived with Mel loved her so much he tried to kill her"

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I also think Mel being like yeah I would be in love with you if Terri weren't with me to Laura is super weird.

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I also think Mel being like yeah I would be in love with you if Terri weren't with me to Laura is super weird.

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"Laura, if I didn't have Terri and if I didn't love her so much, and if Nick wasn't my best friend, I'd fall in love with you, I'd carry you off, honey."

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I like the idea of sentimental love that Mel talks about. He describes it as "the day-to-day caring about the other person." I think the idea that love is lots of small, everyday actions is pretty realistic. This relates to when Nick says that for him and Laura, its just easy being together, which is really important in a relationship

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someone wanting to die for you or hurt you in the name of love, maybe it is love but a diffrent kind, a toxic dangerous kind

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I agree with the type of love that the old couple had. How this man had been in love with his wife and with her for so long that it pained him to not be able to look at her. I think that is true pure love.

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I agree with the type of love that the old couple had. How this man had been in love with his wife and with her for so long that it pained him to not be able to look at her. I think that is true pure love.

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"He said that was what was making him feel so bad. Can you imagine? I’m telling you, the man’s heart was breaking because he couldn’t turn his darn head and see his darn wife.”

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I agree with the concept of love that Mel proposed, this idea where there isn't "one true love." Everyone in this story has been in relationships before the one they're in now, and Mel acknowledges, even with lots of experience about love, that they're all still "beginners at love." He says "Sometimes I have a hard time accounting for the fact that I must have loved my first wife too," and he knows that feelings can grow and change. In the most extreme case, where one person dies, Mel says "the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough." I like the idea that there's no such thing as soulmates or "true love," and instead, feelings of love can grow and fade over time.

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love is something that is displayed in many diffrent ways, words, touch

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I feel like Mel told Terri to shut up so much and was just generally an 🤬 towards her.

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I feel like Mel told Terri to shut up so much and was just generally an 🤬 towards her.

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"Just shut up for once in your life."

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Create 2 posts:

One should address an idea of love that is discussed in the short story that you agree with.

The other should address and idea you do NOT agree with.

For each post, cite the text to support your interpretation.