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This is Love

Hello Lovelies! The following popped up in my social network feed a few days ago, and I am obsessed. Not just because there are two beautiful actors and one is playing a woman with Parkinson's and Jake Gyllenhaal is playing a man who doesn't care. Not just because this scene is the kind of enounter I've dreamt of having, and conversation I've imagined my entire life. But because it addresses what many people in this world seem not to know: people with diabilities can love. And they can love impressively well. http://fb.watch/ky4wD-gxbA/ I know you lovelies don't have trouble imagining someone like me with a fully functional heart; I've shown you mine. You know they exist in others like me because one exisists in me. But with upsetting frequency, I've noticed that there are a lot of able-bodied people who seem to think that just because one part of you doesn't work right, NOTHING else does. And to be fair, after the loss of my beloved fiance Michael t