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I must confess that I pray it comes more than once.

Perhaps it's different for each person, but I've known love a few times over and I see what each different love can offer. All hold beauty and merit.

And you feel it's a bit more common than that?

Having been in love several times, having loved deeply and differently with each, having seen the one who holds my heart still in love with another and still know she loves me... yes, I believe it is.

Maybe you're right. I've only been in love once so far.

I have three times. Twice were my brides, and I have loved them even beyond their deaths. The other is my great love, she who could have taken me apart and yet did not.

Like I said, I've only been in love once, and he nearly killed me. I'm not sure I'm real eager to experience love again.

You would let him continue to control you by denying yourself your emotions?

When I say he nearly killed me, that's not a metaphor. He shot me. It's kind of hard to trust anybody after that.

I did not doubt you meant literally. Yet you are letting him define who and what you are. That is your decision, certainly, but it seems a shame to let him win.

I'm not letting him win. It's just...I felt my life literally slipping away from me. It's...I've never felt anything like it, and I'm not looking to anytime soon. I just need to build up more trust in people. I may love again, but it certainly won't come as easily as it did before.

Death is something you must embrace. Faced eye to eye it loses it's power to bring fear.

I have been friends with Death since I was a child. I have little fear for it now, nor in wasting what time I've been given.

True. Though, it is harder to love again after a deep love that was ended.

I suppose. I was lucky enough that when my first wife died, I was in love with another as well as her. Perhaps that made it easier to love my second wife, as well as carry on.

I've been in love once with a man. But the only one I love now is my daughter. Your wives are/were very lucky women.

I consider myself the lucky one. My life has been blessed with amazing women.

That is very sweet, and nice to hear.