"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
~ Paulo Coelho ~












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