This poem by Philip Larkin describes centuries of people who have passed by a medieval couple buried in a church yard, holding hands. The last line sums up its powerful message perfectly: "What will survive of us is love."
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Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.