What Does Love Mean to One Man?

The joint suicide of André Gorz, the French philosopher and founder of the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, and his British-born wife Dorine, who was suffering from a fatal disease, has turned the love letter that he wrote to her into a surprise bestseller.

This is quite possibly one of the most emotionally poignant pieces on what it means to love another person that I have ever come across. It’s heartwrenching without being sappy. I bawled. My flatmate bawled. If you have a heart, you’ll bawl too. Maybe.