Beauty In Love Medicine

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Anyone who has read Love Medicine probably quickly discovered it would be a hard story to follow. There are multiple characters and each has their own story as well as their version of other character’s stories. The authors reason for writing the story the way it is, is the fact that life is very complex and often has various stories in which we don’t receive answers to all the questions we ask. However, to see the beauty in this story, you must be a reader of patience, which I am not. I can see a beauty in the reasoning the author used to write her book and highly respect the way the Native Americans lived their lives. The most important question in this book is about love. Not just what love medicine is but what each individual love medicine

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