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What does it mean?
Love will grow strong even on broken ruins, remaining fresh and fragrant like before. It promises endurance.
In plain terms
Love will grow strong even on broken ruins and stay fresh.
What can you take from it?
Love can endure and revive even after destruction.

Where it applies

  • relationships
  • recovery
  • healing

Putting it to work

  • trust in love's endurance
  • rebuild together

Questions to consider

  • Can love survive ruin?
  • How does love renew?

Another view

It assumes love survives circumstances that might break it.

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