Jiang says unconditional love permanently changes a person and is most directly experienced when one has a child and must love the child without condition.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay? And you basically achieve unconditional love when you have a child for the first time, because you have to love your child unconditionally,..."
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The quoted turn toward Virgil compares Dante to a frightened child running to a mother and then discovers that Virgil has already withdrawn, leaving tears instead of reassurance.
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"...okay? And you basically achieve unconditional love when you have a child for the first time, because you have to love your child unconditionally,..."
"...I turned around and to my left Just as a little child Afraid or in distress Will hurry to his mother Anxiously To say..."
"...the hours in which the sphere that's always playing like a child appears from day break to the end of the third hour. So..."
"...which he thought with love before creating it is like a child who weeps and laughs in sport that soul is simple unaware but..."
"...And throughout all this time, Donna has been a student, a child of Virgil's, right? Right? So it seems as though it sounds like..."
"...Lady Macbeth says that she's given suck. So she's had a child. But the Macbeths don't have children. And there is a curious moment..."
"...me so much from when I was a very, very small child that you can zoom in with infinite complexity. Do you think this..."
"...brought me my death. The Sienese know how, as does each child in compagnia I am Umberto, and my arrogance has not harmed me..."
"...son and run without a stop. She cares more for the child than for herself, not pausing even to throw on a shift. And..."
"...often, because maybe they need the money, right? Maybe if my child is hungry, I'm going to go steal some, something from other people,..."
"...to god committed to good works that effort would allow the child to ascend to the imperium and here with the complete opposite right..."
"...that because... I've also done transcendental meditation when I was a child. And I had a similar experience with Jay, which is one night..."
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