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Dear Sweet Readers,
We all know Valentine’s Day is only a couple of days away. The Empire State Building will be lit red, restaurants will be filled with couples smooching and bouquets of roses will be delivered. And, I’ll continue to eat those candy hearts until I can’t eat it anymore.

For this once, I’m not going to post about how to make the most romantic candle lit dinner for your significant other, or the best restaurants in town, or the best heart-shaped sugar cookie with red frosting but I am gonna get a little sappy on you.

For me, Valentine’s Day is about the people you love, have loved and want to love. It’s a day that reminds us about our past, present and future…in hopes that we can continue “to love and to be loved”.

If I had the balls to get a tattoo, it would be this phrase “to love and to be loved”. I’d have it with black ink and written in cursive, on the inside of my left wrist. I know that will never happen so, the only thing I can do is explain in words as eloquent as I can — what that phrase means to me in hopes that you can feel inspired by this one post.

Here I go:

TO LOVE.

To love, is a wonderful feeling because it’s innate. It’s straight from the soul and pierces people with a “sweet” feeling. It’s being able to share the “love” that can be hard or quite easy. With family it’s a natural kind of love. With a boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife it’s an intimate bond that doesn’t make you feel alone in the big ass world.

To love, is something we can all do. We do it everyday.

TO BE LOVED.

To be loved, is something we all want and do have in different degrees. It’s a feeling that can move mountains and bring you to tears. It’s an emotion that just consistently tugs at your heart in the best and worst of times. It’s an unspoken feeling that unites us all. It a warm blanket that warms our souls and sets our mind at peace even for the slightest moment.

We all want to be loved.

I challenge you to tell your family, friends or those you hold near and dear to your heart that you care for them, value them and give them a slice of the sweetest feeling in the world: LOVE.

Love doesn’t have to be verbal. You don’t have to say the three words, “I Love You”. It can just be a sweet gesture, a little hug or a sweet kiss on the forehead. Or a short phone call to just say “hello, how are you?”.

Everyone wants “to love and to be loved”.

I know I do.