title: The Many Faces of Love: In Paintings and Poetry
author: John D Wolfersberger
description: The Reverend Doctor John Wolfersberger is a retired Protestant minister whose love of art and poetry began in childhood: art lessons in the seventh grade taught him watercolor and oils and his mother read classical poetry to him at bedtime. These gifts matured into retirement when he has been able to actualize them in this book.
zlib_text: VISIONS OF LOVE
  
  NOAH STEELE
  
  Visions of Love
  Copyright © 2019 by Noah Steele
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written permission of
  the author.
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  This book is available as an ebook and paperback.
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  ONE
  I swirled my Champagne in slow, lazy circles as I stepped slowly from painting to painting, smiling
  behind the lip of my glass. Small groups of people in threes and fours were huddled in front of
  paintings around the gallery, their chorus of hushed tones blending into a hazy high-brow white noise
  practically begging my eyes to roll.
  “These people don’t know what they’re talking about,” I muttered over my shoulder as I slowed to a
  stop in front of a large 