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I once heard a question that both unnerved ly clear: is it more important to love someone with all your heart…

…or to be loved by someone with all of theirs?

We all want to fall head-over-heels in love, and we all want the other person to love us back exactly the same But that’s not usually the way it turns out

In fact, I think that’s rarely the way it turns out Both people may be in love, but it always seems one person is more in love than the other

So… if you had to choose, which would it be?

Love someone else passionately and completely, even if they don’t feel as powerfully as you?

Or be loved passionately and completely, even if you don’t feel exactly the same towards them?

I thought I knew the anshen I heard the question

Then I found out years later that no… I didn’t know the answer at all

Present Day

I sat across fro midtown Manhattan

I’d arrived 15 ht I was there to interview for soofer… toilet scrubber

Actually, I hoped and dreamed it was a staff position As desperate as I was, I would have taken an unpaid internship

IStone

Glen the editor sat across the desk from me, hands folded, serene He was bald on top with curly hair around the sides, and he wore black, plastic-fralasses His personal sense of style was soe Professor

“Kaitlyn Reynolds Finally we meet Good to put a face with the voice over the phone”

“Same here Nice to meet you, too”

“Journalisht?”

“Yes”

“When did you graduate?”

“A year ago” I put on a polite smile “Almost to the day”

“I read the pieces you ereat… but not bad”

Not great… but not bad