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There is an exceedingly regular pattern to the way a normal day begins at our house.

Soon after rising, I go to the kitchen and begin the meticulous process of counting out and placing in two piles a sizable number of pills for Kathryn and me to take.

Since Kathryn, my wife of many years, was diagnosed sometime ago with macular degeneration, the ophthalmologist who treats her has suggested that she take vitamin E on a daily basis.

So, I take a small vitamin E pill from a little bottle and place it in her somewhat large pile of pills.

Vitamins, found in many of the foods we eat, are the essential substances the human body needs in small amounts to enable it to function normally.

Good health depends upon an adequate supply of these substances. Without certain vitamins, the consequences can be serious; devastating diseases may, and often do, develop.

For instance, the lack of vitamin C tends to produce scurvy. On the other hand, the presence of vitamins offers a degree of protection from those dreaded diseases.

So, to secure vitamin C, one of those necessary substances, many people drink a glass of orange juice each morning or eat citrus fruits.

Joseph Loth Liebman, in a popular book entitled Peace of Mind, wrote in 1946, “Next to bread, love is the food that all mortals most hunger for; it is the essential vitamin of the soul.”

Love, in the sense Liebman used it, is far more than is usually meant when the word is used to describe tawdry romance.

So, this essential vitamin is sometimes defined as “spontaneous, altruistic love” which is characterized by an unselfish giving of the self. When such love is present, the scheme of things among humans is changed.

There is a right relationship between individuals that produces good will, peace and harmony.

To insure that there is an adequate supply of this essential vitamin, learn to love people in a real and meaningful way.

That will change everything.

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