# Love story #

The best stories are the love stories

Taylor Swift’s song Love story goes thus-

We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say hello

Little did I know
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you, please, don't go

And I said,
"Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all that's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby just say yes…

Yes, love does make the world go round. It’s the one powerful feeling we all long to experience and be in through our lives.

Here are a few love stories to keep you warm-

#Ben Bryant, 81, lives on the Upper West Side with his wife of almost 50 years, Elizabeth, who's just a few years younger. They met in August 1967 when Ben was the lead in the musical Carousel and Elizabeth (known as Betsey back then) was in a supporting role. During a rehearsal, Ben spotted Betsey. "It was as though there was a pin spotlight on her and all the others in the room faded from view." He asked her to lunch. With some reluctance, she accepted they went to the snack bar across from the theater. Ben calls it a "profound inner knowing." He said, "I knew she was the one."

 Later that day, on Ben's way to the laundromat, he asked Betsey to join him. Under the glamorous fluorescent lighting, they had their first date. Ben says their relationship felt natural from then on...three months later they married. 

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# Keani and Nicholas noticed each other at a party but they didn't say hello. Nicholas told a friend, "That girl in the blue shirt is absolutely beautiful, I need to know her." A year later, a mutual friend introduced them when Keani was 18 and Nicholas was 24. They talked about soccer (their favorite sport), travels, college, and the fact they went to the same high school but never met before. They both loved the same kind of music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, and Oasis. Keani liked Nicholas' sense of adventure, his beard, and the fact that she felt comfortable around him as if they were old friends. Nicholas liked Keani's spontaneity and sense of adventure, which makes sense since she's a travel blogger Their summer was full of fun moments: jumping off a local pier in their Florida hometown and drinking wine on the kitchen floor.

 Keani says, "One night he took me up to his rooftop, laid out a blanket, and we watched the stars for hours. The world was quiet, the stars were bright. It was the moment I knew I was falling in love Story with him."