ROSES AND THORNS

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It's high-season Bachelorette time.  Previous rose-giver Andi Dorfman, spoke to People about her television romances.  No longer engaged to Josh Murray, Dorfman is taking her love lessons with her and moving on.  "All I want now is a steady relationship. . . . Drama gives you a high, but it's not what makes you happy."

Principle in the type:  "The best way for us to show our love ... is by taking the time to prove it hour by hour and day by day.  Our expressions of love and comfort are empty if our actions don't match. . . . May we take the time to show our families, our friends, the stranger ... that our declarations of love are backed up by performance by our daily lives."     Marvin J. Ashton

RONCY

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Love story to the umpth degree.  Storybook.      Nancy Reagan:  " 'I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it," she once told a Vanity Fair reporter. "I'm very lucky. Especially with Ronnie -- I was the happiest girl in the world when I became we." '  link          Ronald Reagan to Nancy:  " 'I more than love you, I'm not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone, I'm waiting for you to return so I can start living again.' "   link

Principle in the type:  "There is a great power in a strong partnership.  True partners can achieve more than the sum of each acting alone."     Russell M. Nelson