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I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003)

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Photo: Don Hogan Charles / The New York Times

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The O in the “LOVE” sculpture being lowered into place. It was cold and the skies leadenly forshadowed rain, but “LOVE” arrived monumentally in New York yesterday in time to gladden the city’s face for Christmas. “LOVE,” a five-ton sculpture by Robert Indiana, the pop artist, will be on display for the next six weeks at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street, at the entrance to Central Park, where it will be highly visible to midtown strollers and shoppers. [11-29-1971]

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“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”

James Baldwin

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This is a Christmas I can feel

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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect it. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

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Always

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I hope the next is the right one