The Many Faces of Love
By Erlene Bass Nelson, Ed.D.
Many profound expressions of love have been bestowed upon me; sacrificial, romantic, unconditional, reciprocal, adorational, mystical, spiritual, and reverent.
The sacrificial love occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s when my teenage mother rendered me, her infant daughter, unto a loving, elderly Christian couple to care for me until she was able.
This elderly couple had a grown son who lived elsewhere, and had previously lost their only daughter from a terminal illness when she was age twenty-one, in the year 1925. I replaced the love and emptiness they lost and felt.
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