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| Writer | Bell Hooks |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publish Date | 2000 |
| Pages | 154 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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WHEN I WAS a child, it was clear to me that life was not worth living if we did not know love. I wish I could testify that I came to this awareness because of the love I felt in my life. But it was love’s absence that let me know how much love mattered. I was my father’s first daughter.
At the moment of my birth, I was looked upon with loving kindness, cherished, and made to feel wanted on this earth and in my home. To this day, I cannot remember when that feeling of being loved left me. I just know that one day I will no longer be precious. Those who had initially loved me well turned away.
The absence of their recognition and regard pierced my heart and left me with a feeling of brokenheartedness so profound that I was spellbound. Grief and sadness overwhelmed me. I did not know what I had done wrong. And nothing I tried made it right. No other connection healed the hurt of that first abandonment, that first banishment from love’s paradise.
For years, I lived my life suspended, trapped by the past, unable to move into the future. Like every wounded child, I just wanted to turn back time and be in that paradise again, in that moment of remembered rapture where I felt loved, where I felt a sense of belonging.
All About Love PDF