Margaret Kelm Cooper, 86, of Vienna, Illinois, United States, passed Wednesday, January 03, 2018. Margaret was born December 31, 1931.

Sometimes you open yourself up to a person because you feel and believe that they're different and maybe this time they won't break your heart and that your love will be requited. So you go out on a limb and open up so much of yourself to this person. Things that you're afraid to tell others about because of fear of being judged or rejected. But there's just something about this person that allows you to tell them everything. You become so comfortable in the presence of that person that you openly admit your flaws, you don't hide it. You just completely lose yourself in love and in the thought and concept of being loved, of being in a relationship and of being with someone that you can be yourself with.

The idea of that person just completely excites you and everything about them makes you happy. Seeing them and hearing their voice just helps you in an inexplicable manner and being with them is an emotion of complete comfortability on its own. You learn to love this person and you accept their flaws and differences. You accept how they might not necessarily love eating McDonald's as much as you do or they are crazy about sci-fi movies where you can't even get yourself past watching a chick flick.

But that's just it, you don't mind. You don't mind because love is about sacrifices.