Kiddo loves the mascot for the college I work at. She thinks that he is the bees knees. For her birthday, I had him play with her for 30 minutes and it made her young life. Every day since then she has asked to go see him. Yesterday morning, when I told her that we couldn't go see him today, she started crying and told me that she wants to go see him, and play with him, and hold his hand, and hug him. As a mom, it ripped my heart out. I just hugged her and told her that we would go see him at as many basketball games as she wanted to go to.
While this isn't the exactly type of love that Deana was talking about, I also read a book yesterday that described it perfectly:
This book tells the story of teenagers Calliope and Eliot who meet and fall in love. The whole time I was reading of the development of their young relationship, Deana's song kept playing in my head. As Cal and Eliot tried to figure out what they would do when Cal's mom wants to move them to New Mexico, it broke my heart. (My heart broke A LOT yesterday.)
I spent most of last night reminiscing about my first relationship and how the line from Deana's song "Is it really him or the loss of my innocence I've been missing so much" describes that relationship to a tee. That relationship was not a good one for me. Perhaps I'll talk about it more at another time, but I learned a lot about myself and what a relationship wasn't from him. There were some good memories, and those are what I chose to think of when I hear this song.
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