When Love is Love

When Love is Love Love, love changes everything / Hands and faces, earth and sky / Love, love changes everything / How you live and how you die . These words by Andrew Lloyd-Webber are no longer just lyrics to me because I now know that  love does change everything .  Add these words:  Now I tremble at your name / Nothing in the world will ever be the same.   My world has not been the same since the first time that I danced with her. She fit! We fit!  She was 17. She came into my world from the old country and I still tremble at her name and my world has never been the same.  Plato will have it that 'falling in love' is the mutual recognition on earth of souls who have been singled out for one another in a previous or celestial existence. To meet the Beloved is to realize 'We loved before we were born.'   While I recognized her, and we did love before we were born, it is clear that rather than being singled out, we chose one another...