Very possibly the most profound thing I've ever read...

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...and it comes from a Sci-Fi novel.

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons


The sad thing is... in all my years, I didn't realize this truth until less than a year ago... but I'm happy to say that I know it now.
 

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I'm glad you guys liked it... when I read that paragraph on my first reading thru the book I was blown away...

Dan Simmons is an excellent writer, I would recommend his books.