When we are young, it's the illusion of perfection that we fall in love with. But as we age, it's the humanness that we fall in love with: the poignant story of overcoming, the depthful vulnerability of aging, the struggles that grew us in karmic statue, they way a soul shaped itself to accommodeate its circumstances. With less energy to bold up our armor, we are revealed and, in the revealing, call out to each other's hearts. Where before wounds turned us off, they are now revealed as proof that God exits. Where we once saw imperfect scars, we now see evidence of a life fully lived. - Jeff Brown, An Uncommon Bond