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What is love? By TonyTeeTee 8/13/16 What is Love? That kind of feeling people speak of Is the feeling when you see a pure white dove Or the feeling when a boy puts on his first baseball glove I thought I had that feeling when I heard the angels sing from up above The inspiration that commanded me to write of But that feeling dies down when she’s not the one I truly think of When the love I thought I had becomes undreamed of And you decide it’s time to walk out of Then I think about the one I truly think of My baby my heart my real true love Makes me remember and answers my question of What is love? Dedicated to B.T.T

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adalaine

Published: May 28, 2010

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_{Naoshima, Japan

..umm, PS, sorry for all these ocean/waterscape photos; it's just that I'm on a study abroad course in Japan right now and Naoshima is lovely and photogenic}

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