Jacob Lawrence, The Lovers (1946)

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June 20, 2005:

I'm not sure what lessons I was "supposed" to learn.

To be more patient? More compassionate? More understanding?

To forge a deep and lasting friendship, after romance proved three times fruitless? To do better at making the romance itself work, despite its debilitating destructiveness?

I'm only sure of the lesson which I did learn.

Never under any circumstances to allow anyone to hold me back, ever again, no matter the depth of my feelings for them.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

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