love is walking hand in hand.

Love is mussing up someone's hair. Love is loaning your best comic magazines.  

Love is having a special song. Love is tickling. Love is a valentine with lace all around the edges. Love is wishing you had nerve enough to go over and talk with that boy with the brown hair. Love is letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him. Love is sharing your popcorn. Love is hating to say goodbye.

Love is walking hand-in-hand. Love is a letter on pink stationary. Love is getting someone a glass of water in the middle of the night. Love is passing notes back and forth in school. Love is standing in a doorway just to see him if he comes walking by.

Love is making fudge together. Love is wondering what he's doing right now this very moment. Love is buying somebody a present with your own money. Love is not nagging. Love is visiting a sick friend. Love is a phone call. Love is walking in the rain together. Love is eating out with your whole family. Love is being able to spot him clear across the playground among four hundred other kids. Love is commiting yourself in writing. Love is meeting someone by the pencil sharpener. Love is being happy just knowing that he's happy... but that isn't so easy. Love is a flag. Love is liking people. Love is liking ideas. LOVE IS THE WHOLE WORLD..*

                   

                           (Charles M. Schulz, 1965)