I Love You

“I love you.” These are words we have all said to many, various people in our lives: our parents, our brothers, our friends, our lovers. But what do they really mean? Patrick is in a better position than most to know. He married his teenage sweetheart and has spent a long, happy life with her; now near the end, he finds himself looking back and contemplating their meaning.“I love you.” These are words we have all said to many, various people in our lives: our parents, our brothers, our friends, our lovers. Sometimes we have meant them, sometimes we have been lying. But what do those words really mean? Patrick is in a better position than most to know. He married his teenage sweetheart and has spent a long, happy life with her; yet now she is dying, and he is on the edge of losing her. As he cares for a woman who barely remembers his name, he looks back on his life and contemplates the meaning of those words: words which have come to define his, and indeed every other, life on Earth.