Dionne Warwick expressed it for us in her classic hit song: “What the world needs now is love sweet love, that’s the one thing there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love sweet love, no not for some but for everyone.”
As we look at our world today — a world of division, discord and distrust — these words of “needed love” resonate with a growing number of us.
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