Aphrodite's Flame
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MatureComplete Tue, May 18, 20214h 43m
Aphrodite has known all sorts of love - motherly love, exciting puppy love, passionate love, intimate love - she has loved men and women alike and even learned to love herself. Since she now knows the colour of the pomegranate - she saw it in the love shared between Hades and Persephone - she longs for true, destined and real love.
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