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What is Love?

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What is love?  According to Wikipedia, "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another..."  My Dad and I visited Pontefract today, 10th June 2022, to sign his Lasting Power of Attornay. It brought back many memories.  September 2010 Pontefract West Yorkshire I loved my sister Mandy.    BUT , she did my head in and I was on my way to give her shit. Mandy had two problems. The first, she had no money and the second, her breast cancer had spread.  She lived in Kirk Smeaton, a small village with a tiny shop and the ‘Shoulder of Mutton’ pub, just outside of Pontefract and two minutes walk from Brockadale Nature Reserve with its craggy outcrops of limestone high above the River Went - the northern tip of the old Sherwood Forest. We spent hours and hours walking along the crags with her dog Rosie.  We walked off many a hangover and cried a lot. So there I was, driving to Pontefract from Devon to bollock her, as by now the rest of my family w