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Now here is another question, and one that is often asked, "Is love alone enough for a happy mating?"

No. That is my answer, and I answer as I do because the word love is capable of so many different interpretations.

Two young people may have what is called calf love. This often occurs when people are very young. It is not a discriminating love, but simply sex sentiment, based upon superficial conditions such as the pink cheeks and bright eyes of the girl and the manly ways of the boy. They are just boy and girl out in the world in quest of love and seeking to enjoy the romance of life, dreaming dreams, and fastening the affections on the first desirable one of the other sex that appears.

Have you ever looked back on your early loves and smiled over them? Of course, there have been boys and girls who have fallen in love as children