I Can't Make You Love Me
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"They say what is love and how do you find it? Well I say that you can't find true love nor can it be handed to you on a silver platter, but you have to earn it and built it before you can even have it."
-Destine Valentine
6 years ago 21 year old Destine Valentine was young, shy, and a virgin. She meets 19 year old Brandon Clark and they immediately hit it off. Destine thought it was love at first sight, but Brandon thought otherwise. Destine decides to give the one thing that she's kept of value to Brandon. Her virtue. Confessing her love to Brandon, Destine found out that he couldn't love her the same way she did.
That's when Destine figures out that love cannot be found, but earned.
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