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Preface - Introduction

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks. William Morrow, 2001.

• When hooks was a child, it was clear to her that life was not worth living without love.

• It was love’s absence that let her know how much love mattered.

• Hooks was her father’s first daughter.

• At the moment of birth, she was looked upon with loving kindness, cherished and made to feel wanted on earth and in her home.

• To this day, hooks cannot recall when that feeling of being loved left her.

• All she knows is that one day she was no longer precious.

• Those who had initially loved her well turned away.

• The absence of their recognition pierced her heart and left her with a feeling of brokenheartedness so profound she was spellbound.

• Grief and sadness overwhelmed hooks...

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