This is a classification essay about the different types of love: parental, friendship, and "chemical love."

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Love, Love, Love- We are Surrounded by Love "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality- not as we expect it to be, but as it is- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. "1 Most of our lives consist of socializing with others, beginning new relationships, and strengthening old ones. Love is all around us, embodied ...

... of the object of desire. Even a touch on the hand by the loved one can cause extreme felicity. When a person is "in love," the object of desire is the meaning of that person's life; he or she wakes up in the morning, overflowing with vivacity and energy, all fueled by the thought that he or she will be with that one particular person. When someone experiences such attraction to another person, he or she is ready to risk his or her life for the loved one or for the sake of being together, just like Romeo and Juliet preferred to die rather than be separated. "Chemical love," therefore, is stronger than the mental

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