Five Language of Love/Love After Death Row/Modern Love

The NY Times from November 20 had an article about Gary Chapman, pastor of the Brentwood Hills Church of Christ, author of "5 Love Languages".  In  his taxonomy love is expressed by:

• words of affirmation,
• gifts,
• acts of service,
• quality time, and
• physical touch. 

He claimed that he knew in high school that of the two options of working in a Christian framework, he would be a pastor because missionary clashed with his dislike of snakes.

The same issue described the marriage of Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle.  Jacobs along with her husband and children were passengers in a car which was involved in an incident which left two Florida law enforcement officers dead.   Both Jacobs and her husband were sentenced to death.  Her husband was electrocuted by Florida.  Later, the third adult in the car who turned state's evidence admitted to being the shooter.  She was released after 17 years in prison.

Pringle was sentenced to death in Ireland for the death of two police officers following a bank robbery.  He was saved by several events: 1) Commutation to 40 years without parole, 2) the transcript of his confession was written before he was interrogated, and 3) Ireland abolished the death penalty.  It is not clear that he was innocent.

Their nuptials were attended by three notable actresses,Brooke Shields, Marlo Thomas, and Amy Irving, who had portrayed Sunny Jacobs in the play "The Exonerated".

The "Modern Love" column by Charlotte Alter, a senior at Harvard, contained this gem: "They say that each generation thinks it invented love. But from what I can see, my generation seems to fear we’ve forgotten it."