{"id":5320,"date":"2020-09-14T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:04:43","slug":"love-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/love-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;What a relief, my father is still alive! Of course I forgive him everything.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The universe opens up when someone verges between life and death, doesn&#8217;t it? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>People get really wise and turn on to what&#8217;s right in front of them. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;This moment, for instance. This beautiful day! The air we&#8217;re both breathing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Maybe, maybe, maybe <\/strong>I thought, we could have a relationship.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/16009874\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/3e3aa9\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em>A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE<\/em> <\/span>is my first novel, the fictionalized story of an enormous family of Catholics in Pasadena, in 1963. Here are some early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love\/\">reviews of this popular book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><em><strong>Individually, we are a drop, together, an ocean&#8221; &#8211; Ryunsuke Satoro<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the book from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=A+Theory+of+Expanded+Love&amp;i=stripbooks-intl-ship&amp;crid=3VQ6SXTCG3I7P&amp;sprefix=a+theory+of+expanded+love%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C152&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon HERE<\/a>, or from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/collections\/historical\/products\/a-theory-of-expanded-love?variant=40985249775709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunbury Press HERE<\/a>. Get the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chirpbooks.com\/audiobooks\/a-theory-of-expanded-love-by-caitlin-hicks?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audiobook version HERE<\/a> <\/strong>from Chirpbooks.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Back to:<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/podcast\/\">ALL MY PODCASTS PAGE\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What a relief, my father is still alive! Of course I forgive him everything.&#8221; &#8220;The universe opens up when someone verges between life and death, doesn&#8217;t it? People get really wise and turn on to what&#8217;s right in front of them. &#8220;This moment, for instance. This beautiful day! The air we&#8217;re both breathing. 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