What is love?

For the mother with a son or a wife with a husband at war, love is longing for his safe return.
For the 17 year old girl, love is a fleeting romance with flowers and kind words.
For the 17 year old boy, love is lust.
For the 24 year old girl, love is affection instead of abuse, harmony instead of hate.
For the 24 year old boy, love is doing what is not asked of you, before she can ask it of you.
For the 38 year old woman, love is becoming inspired to do things you have wanted to do forever.
For the 38 year old man, love is doing them with her.
For the 50 year old woman, love is the gazing stare and the whisper under her breath that says, "I adore you.... Still"
For the 50 year old man, love is thinking of her first, even when you really wanna play golf with the guys.
For the 80 year old woman, love is the little quirks that he's had for 60 years that you still find annoying, yet in spite of it all, you would never imagine being separate.
For the 80 year old man, love is a wife that still puts up with his shit, and still smiles when he says to the grandchildren, "Pull my finger."