But “As long as I’m living / my baby you’ll be.” Sometimes it’s the one still loving the other whose health has gone, whose memory has gone, whose ability to communicate has gone. The love of husband and wife survives longer than physical health. I remember reading it when I was eight and I am now 18. “I cry so hard every time I read this book. “This was my favourite book, and when the time came, it was me holding the mom that couldn't remember my name but I will love you forever.” Make sure you tell everyone you care for you love them every chance you get.”

It hurts so much to know I’m going to lose her one day. “I just remember my mom reading this story to me as a kid. The magic 18 words apply equally well in all of these social relationships.Ī couple of online comments about Munsch’s story are emotionally wringing: It is God’s gift to us that we are able to love, having first been loved by God, then in creation by our parents and later by family members, friends and sweethearts. But there is much to say about love and life. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book.”Īgain, as an essayist I should stop my article here and let its profound message resonate with the reader. “For a long time it was just a song, but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. “I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. “Now, those are 18 beautiful words worth remembering for always.” (Internet source)įor those who are not familiar with the story of Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever published once upon a 1986, I’ll share Munsch’s brief explanation:

I love you forever story book