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All photographs by Richard Boober Read more

All photographs by Richard Boober Read more

All photographs by Richard Boober Read more

all photographs by Richard Boober Read more

On this day in 1849, Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, sold her first commercial valentine card. It hasn’t stopped since. While justly denounced as a holiday conceived in the imagination of a marketer, if we stop for a second and draw a deep breath, it seems pretty obvious this was a classic example of filling a need. Romantic love may not be everything it is cracked up to be. But it ain’t without its comforts. If you have a partner... Read more

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. but in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will... Read more

Comments at the Rally for Marriage Equality At the Rhode Island State House 12 February 2009 James Ishmael Ford MinisterFirst Unitarian Church of Providence Over the years there have been too many stories of women and men denied access to their dying partners, of surviving partners denied access to insurance or even their homes. and of children being taken away from a loving parent: all because the adults involved were of the same gender. There is so much hurt in... Read more

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