Previously...
Darla riffs on what Love is and isn't:
First off, anything covered in hearts is a Top Seller down at the old Prairie View Drive-In Swap Meet. Love - a favorite topic, for sure. Love is a messy mix of hormonal teenage angst (ah, the rush of that first crush!) and hating the other so much you wanna bash her/him/genderless entity over the head 
with a skillet. Oh delicious pummeling of the soul! The push and pull and psychic upheaval is what's intoxicating, not safety, security, doilies, or roofs-over-heads. Love is Insanity and Total Loss of the Self. It's like this: You need to be in each other's skin one minute. The next, you've put oceans and continents between you to prevent anodized steel from meeting grey matter. Expand, contract ... Love is a living thing that takes stage directions from No One. Come here - Go away - Stay outta my light - You Are the Light. Love is a challenge; it's a test. Love pushes all your buttons, rubs you in all the right and wrong ways, and puts into question EVERYTHING you believe. Think you have control over all matters of a wet and sticky Venusian nature? WRONG. Love confounds, concusses, and causes wild weight fluctuations. Love isn't pretty and we all look stupid when we're in it. We dipshits wouldn't want it any other way. Just look at all those shoppers snatching up anything heart-shaped and schmoopie.
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