1. When asked about her writing, author Toni Morrison said it best, "I think, all the time when I write, I'm writing about love or its absence...about love or how to survivenot to make a living, but how to survivewholein a world where all of us are, in some measure,victims of something...each one of us is in some way at some moment a victim and in no position to do anything about it...in a world like that, how does one remain wholeis it just impossible to do that?". How would you respond to Morrison's questions?

1. If you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what advice would you give to prepare them for the experiences of love you have already lived through?