Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.