{"id":2918,"date":"2011-07-12T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:34:58","slug":"her-only-true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/her-only-true-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Her only true love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Melissa, you’re my only true love<\/strong>,” whispered the mother.<\/p>\n

I was just within earshot, pretending to read. The girl leaned into her mother, received a kiss on her forehead, and then went back the children’s section of the library. The mother returned to her book.<\/p>\n

She was a beautiful woman, with a kind face. How sad<\/strong>, I thought, that all she has is her daughter. She must be a widow, or have been abandoned. Has she no living siblings, or parents? Or has the family been torn asunder by some falling out? How sad. I went back to my book, but was too blue to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

A quarter of an hour later, a young boy<\/strong> approached the woman. He looked to be about five years old. She reached out knowingly to him, and he fell into her embrace.<\/p>\n

“Jimmy, you’re my only true love,” she said.<\/p>\n

I had misunderstood. Just because the daughter is her only true love, it didn’t follow that the son wasn’t also her only true love. They both were.<\/p>\n

Was this a mystery, a contradiction of the heart?<\/strong> Did she really only love Mellissa, and also, really only love Jimmy? I decided not. It was just a phrase. I imagined that at home, she probably has a husband who is also her “only true love”. But when she says it to him, I wondered, does it mean something more exclusive? What about when she says it to the dog, or to the cat?<\/p>\n

She assembled her children and they approached the counter to check out their books. I think I heard the girl say, of two different books, that each was her “favorite<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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