Dear Editor: "Love" You

Dear Editor,

What is the difference between someone saying “I love you” and the popular phrase we all love to bandy around: “love you?” How about the one that comes to one’s lips even easier, “love ya?” One might note a fairly close correlation between this and the subject at hand: “Do we really care?”

The answer, of course, is “Yes, yes, we DO care!” The extent to which we care, however, is the issue.

The care which the majority of us exercise (if we care at all) might seem rather generic, if you think about it. In this part of the country, especially, when some kind...