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While reading the story about love it brought many interesting and contrasting opinions to myself. While reading early on in the text I understood that the conversation started out heavy and they wer drinking but not drunk. As the conversation went on about love, they became more drunk, and the conversation became more free. The interesting aspect was the different view points that each different person brought up and added to the conversation.

Each different person had a different experience with love. Some had bad experiences, others had positive. But every person had the same underlying opinion on love, it makes one do crazy things, and act out of the norm. For the one couple it caused him to try and murder his wife, then kill himself. For the other couple it caused them to say things and take actions towards eachother that they would never say or do to anyone other than the one they love.

One difference that the story held was if love was a choice or not. I believe when the author was referring to the old couple, they had made a choice to love each other for all those years and when they were now apart, they chose to miss eachother. But the story about the man who tried to kill his wife I think had no choice in it. He could not let her go, or forget about her. Like the saying goes 'he was crazy about her', I truly believe he was.

Love is complicated and as the story shows every couple shows it differently. Love has an effect on every person, especially when alcohol is in the same picture. The more honest people become about love the crazier it sounds. We should never under estimate the power that love has over us.