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  "path": "/2026/02/14/love-anyway/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T11:56:57.000Z",
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  "tags": [
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    "Loren Eiseley",
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  "textContent": "You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, and you love anyway — because life is transient but possible, because love alone bridges the impossible and the eternal. I think about this and a passage from Louise Erdrich’s 2005 novel The Painted Drum (public library) flits across the sky of my mind: Life will break you. Nobody… read article",
  "title": "Love Anyway"
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