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love is an all encompassing sense of safety; discount all other factors, the person at present was enriched by or deprived of it in childhood. the disfigurement of one's worth and orientation of purpose in the world is almost always arm's reach from a disharmony of love for one's self or from others; at the doorway of reservation, you will knock and this person will be standing behind the door. at the opening... at the cessation of fighting... this person will collapse into tears. as one who cares, you must let this person fall, and you must also let this person stand. but you have the opportunity--- this person, upon succumbing to all he or she carries or believes, is giving you the opportunity to touch; the promise to grasp your hand on his or her arm and help he or she stand. it may just be the most precious opportunity of all; the chance to show someone what it means to be love