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A new philosophy of love

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Was There a Big Bang Moment for the Idea of This Book?

There was no dramatic event that made this book a reality. What there was was a long period of what i call gray scale depression,. Just sadness every day just wasn't going away. I ended up calling the book sad love, because that sad love condition was the prompt for me to understand all this. But really, the book is not about sadness, cause it's not about any emotion at all. The book is about understanding what love is, and how you can't define it in terms of any particular emotion. It has to, by its very nature, have space for all of them.

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