All You Need Is Love

Romeo and Juliet Montague recently celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary, a quiet dinner at home, no banquet, no family invited. The two children stayed the night at Benvolio’s house. Romeo intends to take the next morning off. He is now an electrician specializing in computer repairs and, working by and for himself. Juliet is working on a bachelor’s degree in accounting with an eye on law school, having spent much of the past …

…it love?” Is this what I am looking for? I’m charmed by what I see, but could I tolerate the well-traveled road to get there? And yet, here (I could imagine) was real companionship, a literal union of souls, two frictionless surfaces ground to a perfect fit after decades of banging and rubbing against one another, now inseparable by force of time and continuous cohesion (White 32). Is this the love I dream about? Yes.