Remember: Some loves never leave you

Just received an e-mail from my old San Diego buddy Bill Devlin, now a resident of Portland, who had this to say about the YouTube short that I posted below:

“I loved that little YouTube film . I found myself chuckling ‘way down deep and low’ as memories of those first stumbling, bumbling attractions, boiling yearnings and deep-ember-glow passionate burnings arose in me so many years ago. So vulnerable, so terribly self-conscious, so easily crushed…

“All the while learning the impossible necessity of hope, the frighteningly powerful hunger for passionate connection – for the selfishness and selflessness of love.

Linda Longshore, I still love you!”

To which I will add the names of Sharon Abernathy, Margie Thomas, Flora Yoro and, of course, Terry Cornett - all lost loves of my own youth.

Below: Young love is sweetly inspiring, made even more profound when it passes - as it so often does.

Associated Press