Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabri…

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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, p.17, Vintage
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