Lovee ♥

     There are many different types of love. There's sibling love, family love, love that you think is love but really its just a crush love, and of course there's the actual love. But, what is love? The Meaning of Love offers and explains a definition of love in a way that is interesting, intense, clear, logical, and meaningful. Whether its infatuation, friendship, dating, marriage, family, community, or professional love. In my book Thirteen by Lauren Myracle love is the theme in the book but, unlike the other books I have read that also had love for their theme Thirteen had love presented in many different forms and ways. 
     Reading the book the first love Lauren Myracle introduced was family love. Winnie, the main character in the book of course had to have the sibling love. All though sometimes throughout the book it was hard for me to see the love Winnie and her sister Sandra had, but finishing the book it really showed how much they cared about each other. Like the time that Sandra helped give Winnie advice about Winnie's boyfriend Lars. Winnie also has a lot of love for her little brother Ty, no matter how many times he annoyed her she still loves and cares about him. 
     Another love that is put out there is the crush love. Winnie starts going out with a boy names Lars, and he's gorgeous! Everything is perfect about Lars except for when he starts ignoring Winnie, It happens to everyone when you think your crush is the "love of your life" and how heat broken you are when something goes wrong. After Lars fixes things up with Winnie, and it all seems like everything is going great another love is introduced.
     The love that is introduced is the love that Sandra and her boyfriend  Bo have. The love that they have is true love. They have been going out for a long time and they are perfect for each other. There is also the true love that mom and dad have. Even though it seems like everything is perfect, every relationship has its ups and downs. Winnie's family has been having its ups and downs and seems like the downs kept coming more often, mom would freak out and scream at everybody and it seems like it would tear the family apart but, that was before everybody discovered that....
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The mom was pregant, with her fourth child. 
     Then there's Joseph, the little boy in her brother's class who has leukemia. Even though she doesn't know him Winnie feels sorry for him. This makes her look at life in a whole new way. She has this love for Joseph that is pretty amazing, for the fact that she barely knows him and cares about him that much it just shows what kind of person Winnie is. Over the course of her thirteenth year, Winnie faces lots of new things, each one exciting in its own way. Even though life sometimes gets a little hectic, Winnie knows she loves being thirteen!
If you were looking for love, would you recognize it if you found it?