A brief portrait of a person speaking about love

The Atlas of Curiosities: Part 29

“Sometimes there is a love that does not make you feel like you are young at all,” he said.  “Sometimes there is a love that makes you feel like you are so old.  It makes you feel like you have seen everything, known everything, done everything. There is a love like this.”

“Oh,” we said.

“It comes and goes, I suppose,” he said. “But if you have felt it even for an instant, then you will…you will….”

“You will what?” we said.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“It is like that.”