It Was Love When…: Tales from the Beginning of Love

Both addictive and heartwarming, “It Was Love When…” is a freeze frame of that moment when you realize that you’re truly, completely in love. Stories collected from Robert K. Elder’s website of the same name.

It may be after three days together, or after three months-it’s that moment when it all falls together. From heartfelt declarations to all-knowing smiles, It Was Love When .. captures that moment when love is just beginning.

• I thought to myself, “I love him more than Spider-Man loves Mary Jane.”

• I was looking through his iTunes when I realized that our playlists were nearly identical.

• Suddenly he turned off the lights and told me to look up at the ceiling. Glow-in-the-dark stars covered the entire ceiling, spelling out “I love you.”

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Robert K. Elder is a journalist in the noblest tradition. . . . What I will remember most about this book is its poetry in the speech of people at the most traumatic moment of their lives.”

How necessary this book is! And how well-judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown.”

An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.”

How necessary this book is! And how well-judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown.”

An invaluable book for anyone interested in Hemingway or the development of a major creative mind.”

it’s a privilege to look through [Hemingway’s] closet and read his stuff and discover him as a mortal man.”