Must Love Dogs

Plot:
Sarah Nolan, a preschool teacher in her thirties, is recently divorced. Her family's new pet project is to find her a boyfriend. After a series of disastrous, but hilarious, dates she decides to swear off dating for good. Her well-meaning family and friends are not going to let her give-up quite so easily though. Her sister enrolls her in on-line dating and includes the description of "must love dogs." She loves dogs but doesn't own one of her own, so she borrows her brother's dog to meet Jake Anderson at the dog park; he, too, had to borrow a dog. It's a hit-and-miss beginning - but could true love wag its tail for these two? You bet.
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As always, the movie had a happy ending. One of the best line I heard came from Jake:
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"I think your heart grows back bigger ya know, once you get the shit beat out of you. And the universe lets your heart expand that way, cause thats the function of all this pain and heartache that you go through and you gotta go through that to come out to a better place."
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In the movie, Jake experienced the heartache of relationships & the pain of rejection. Truth is, all true lovers have in one way or another attended lessons from the school of pain. Fact is: Many don't complete their training well or graduate. They drop out, then drop in later ... People fall in love, get hurt, then fall out of love...then in love, hurt again, then out of love. In my time, people call it repeat. You don't get to advance to the next level until you fulfill the current level of training.
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You see, as in the movie, my heart will grow back bigger (and stronger) everytime I bounce back from a hurting relationship. It will expand to accomodate the future as I embrace it one step at a time. I believe pain has its purpose: to instruct us in matters of the heart, to be emotionally mature and volitionally strong. Let Pain be your tutor. As for me:
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I will go through it.
I will let my hurting heart expand.
I will come out and discover a better place.
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I will.