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Natch!34risks. Love doesn%u2019t listen to reason. Love offers hope. Loveconfounds expectations. Love offers comfort. Love providesinspiration, nourishment. Love endures.%u201d He watched her eyesbrighten, and he decided to temper the love fest, just a little.%u201cNow don%u2019t believe what you read in Destiny%u2019s heaving breastsnovels. Love is also foolish, careless, and blind. Love makesunpredictable, indefensible choices that have nothing to do withsurvival and that can, in fact, make survival less likely, but still,there it is%u2014a peacock%u2019s display%u2014love, frivolous but hand in glovewith life.%u201d Will made a gesture with his hands to emphasize theintimate relationship.%u201cAnd Gad doesn%u2019t believe in love?%u201dHe shook his head. %u201cI think you should ask Gad. He%u2019s%u2026%u201d%u201cWill!%u201d Thena poked her head in the doorway, her eyes widewith alarm. %u201cThere%u2019s been an accident.%u201d%u201cWhat?%u201d Will sat up alert and ready.%u201cWhirlicopter went down.%u201d%u201cHow? Where?%u201d%u201cDon%u2019t know. We%u2019re just getting pieces. Somewhere in the FarSouth.%u201d%u201cAre they ok?%u201d Will stood and reached for a brown leatherjacket.%u201cDon%u2019t know. Come on!%u201d