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To Love is to be vulnerable...

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, and irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." -C.S. Lewis The word vulnerable what does that even mean?            By definition to be vulnerable is to be exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally: Synonym words for vulnerability: accessible, defenseless, exposed, NAKED, sensitive, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, UNGUARDED, UNPROTECTED, UNSAFE, WEAK, wide open. Antonyms: closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure I don’t kn