My Love Story Essay: What's Love

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"What 's Love" People often say a Mother loves her child even before the child is born as she becomes part of the child world and their heart beats as one. But love often has different faces and emotions, some love for money, power and fear but no one can only Truly know when they have found love after they have lost it. Can you love something or someone without actually having had that person or thing with you your whole life? I have often fantasized that when I fall in Love at that precise moment the world will stop and it will just be me and her just staring at each other 's fear, hopes and dreams as they become one. My Love story is not like the movies I don 't have or craved …show more content…
Whether this is proven or just a statement made by someone who intelligence is based on personal opinion it still doesn 't mean that slaves were not allow to love. The believe that someone can fall in love just by looking into each other 's eyes is something that I haven 't experienced or ever thought possible. But when you see true love you know you are looking into someone 's happiness as they will live the life billions search …show more content…
Everyone has heard of love stories and we 've all seen the movies but have you actually experienced seeing two people love each other so much that they literally died because one of them left this Earth? Well I have and it the saddest and at the same time the most magical thing I will ever get to experience in my life. I 'm not talking about "Romeo and Juliet" or "Jack and Rose" I 'm talking about real life Love where their bond stretches through the stars and beyond this galaxy. I 'm talking about my Grandparents and their amazing love life. You 've probably asked your self why would I mention slavery if I 'm talking about Love but what you have to understand is that back in the 1900s my Grandfathers parents used to own slaves and at that time a White man couldn 't or won 't dare be with a Black women but my Grandparents grew up in the same place and they fell in Love as children and kept their Love through all the hatred and violence that it caused at that

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