What's love? To second-graders, it's . . .
Earlier this week, students in Joanne Niebergall's second grade class at Aquebogue Elementary School, including Matthew Powers, left, and Anisha Cannon, make valentines and talk about what love means to them. (Feb. 7, 2011) Credit: Newsday / Mario Gonzalez
Love means many things.
For couples with 50 years of marriage or more, patience, honesty, and letting go of the little things all were key.
But younger generations have a different take, such as those offered recently by second-graders making valentines in Joanne Niebergall's class at Aquebogue Elementary School in Riverhead.
Jordan Palmer knows people are in love "when they, like, hug each other and kiss each other and they sit next to each other," she said.
And while "I Love You" gets the
message across, Anisha Cannon summed up a couple in love with five little words: "They never ever break up."
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