C27 TWENTY SEVEN

The Course of Love

ROSE

The course of true love never did run smooth.

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dear Diary,

Life is a complicated mix of joy and sadness, love and hate, good and evil. This soup of mixed flavors can sometimes leave a bad taste in our mouth, but then with one bite of the sweetness, we remember why we feast, why we risk it all to sample life's cuisine