This is a true story. I have given up on love. I have given up on myself as someone who can find romantic love in a true and potent form. I dare to say that I cannot be loved. I am too broken and sad and have used up my quota of love already. I have had two who have loved me and I them, but those are loves of the past and offer nothing now but bitter memories of love’s calamity. I would be so happy to find the love of my life that would be my mate for all time. It seems that is a dream of the past, a dream that a child had, and a silly childish belief. So I love my child and I love my cat. I have put myself on the edge of reason, on the precipice of love and shouted, “Here I am! I will love you!” I have jumped and I have fallen. Sadly, love’s net has not reached out to hold me. I have crashed on the rocks below. I have nothing and nothing has me.