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I saw this old couple holding hands as they walked into the store

I’ve seen them walking….holding hands…a hundred times before.

Since we kind of know each other…before they headed out

I asked if they would answer a question…something I was curious about.

“I’ve seen how you walk hand in hand.” I said

“I’ve seen how into each other’s eyes you stare.

I was wondering is there a secret to your love…

something, perhaps, you’d like to share.”

Although they took turns talking…and quickly their responses came…

I shall not distinguish their voices…because their message was the same.

We can think of nothing more magnificent…more beautiful…more sublime

than that feeling of elation when we fell in love for the very first time.

But from that moment we first fell in love…time continued flowing 

and we continued changing as we continued growing….

The beauty of our love is that even as we’ve changed…

as all people and couples do…

we’ve been lucky because our love has changed and evolved too.

Which means…since we’re not the same people we were back then…

we get that feeling of falling in love for the first time…over and over again.

If falling in love for the first time is special…unique in it’s own way…

Imagine what it’s like falling in love for the first time…with the same person every day.

With that they gave each other a little kiss…then as they’d done a hundred times before…they held each other’s hand as they walked together out the door.