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LOVE

Friendship and Loving Touch

Lovers Around the World

Loving Strangers in the City

Love of Women

Love of Men

Sexual Love

The Pleasures of Sex

Love’s Pain and Healing

HAPPINESS 

Joy

ContentED ACCEPTANCE

Calm Self-Sufficiency

DOUBT AND DESPAIR

The Poet’s Doubt and Despair

       Transcending Doubt and Despair

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