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Most of us have grown up with the notion that “making love” means having sex. And, at its best, that’s what sex can be. But making love can also mean much more.

My late friend Elizabeth Kanitz Canfield, a health educator and activist and an Austrian Holocaust survivor, was adamant in her belief that most people see making love in an all-too-limited way, relegating the concept solely to the physical, sexual realm when it could be expanded to mean so many ways people can share pleasure and, in so doing, increase the intensity of their emotional bond with each other.

“Listening to music together and being transported by the beauty of it is making love,” Liz would insist. “Taking a hike together and reveling in all........

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