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(Harpers Bazaar December 2009 Issue)

{"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness."}

-Victor Hugo

his is the very best photo shoot that our own, Edward and Bella, have ever done! I chose the quote to go along with it because they all seemed to have this aura of young love: excitement, romance, exclusivity. The last photograph is one of my favorites of the set, because it has this beautiful gothic atmosphere, imbuing intimacy and secrecy.

I would like to think that new love is characterized both by a sense of personal familiarity and capriciousness. On one hand, you know the color of their eyes, what books they love, the bashfulness in the way they eye you under their lids and turn red. You know the music of their laugh, the tone of their voices at two a.m., how they feel about people and their favorite nooks.

On the other hand, you can't know what they are thinking. You could run away with them, and think you have their movements pinned down, and they turn around and do something all the more bewildering, perhaps beguiling,  than you thought could be.

Remember when you fell in love for the first time? All those emotions that made you feel like a teenager, running through the streets in the rain with your hand in theirs? In that moment, home is wherever their hands were.