Catholic Fiction Review of Dandelion Man

DETROIT - March 24, 2013 - PRLog -- Do you remember your first love? Most do. We carry that first love deeply hidden in our hearts, but that hidden love remains. First love is that overpowering, head-over-heels feeling that we experience in our tender youth and it often teaches us how to need and respond to others. It prepares us for that special person with whom we ultimately share our life. Unfortunately, relatively few of us find the unending type of love the first time around. Yet that first love is so special that we never forget it. Forty years after losing his first love, Wally, now happily married, attends the funeral of dee’s (spelled with a small d) father. And in that meeting renews the memory of a love that both elated and crushed him so many years ago.

In his tale of young romance, Walter Kreucher shows us the four types of love. When dee and Wally start off there is affection that grows into friendship.  Then that love grows to a physical attraction that is called Eros.  It isn’t until pain, separation, and heartbreak that Wally learns to have Agape love for dee.  It is often so with our relationship with God. We develop a friendship (Phileo) with God full of emotion and attraction. But it is not until we seem to ‘lose’ Him, when our prayers seem unanswered, and our pain unacknowledged, that we learn to love God, not for what He can give us, but just for who He is. On page 158 a parting note from dee explains it all:

“…just to know that my love was truly happy. As for me, the words of Kahlil Gibran describe it best, ’and ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.’”

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