My friends and family. They make me feel special.
Glenda J. Rivas, 12
Maxwell Middle School
Cleaning my room is love, washing the dishes is love for my mom and most of all being together with my family.
Omar Fierros, 13
Maxwell
Caring and spending time together with my family and friends.
Marco Mendoza, 12
Maxwell
A feeling for someone.
Jessica Olivas, 13
Maxwell
I think love was best said as … your soul's recognition of its counter-point by Owen Wilson in "Wedding Crashers."
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Julian Martinez, 12
Maxwell
When I got family and friends.
Jose Alfredo Paredes, 13
Maxwell
A great feeling that you have that you can share with someone, and care and joy.
Brian Armenta, 13
Maxwell
Caring about people you love.
Jacob Luna, 13
Maxwell
A feeling or emotion everyone has, mostly towards family and people you really like a lot.
Domingo Rico, 12
Maxwell
Two people who like each other.
Robert Esquivel, 13
Maxwell
When some man really loves a girl and they really want to start a relationship.
Joshua Ibarra, 12
Maxwell
When one person really truly likes a person enough to help and take care of this person, in health and in illness, is love to me.
Joshua Wills, 13
Maxwell
Liking someone a lot and they can't get out of your mind.
Javier Ortega, 13
Maxwell
When someone tells you what to do and what not to do. When you help people and they help you.
Griselda Miranda, 7
Hollinger
You care about someone and when you take care of each other. When you help people, when you're nice to your friends and when you say nice things.
Leonel Ojeda, 7
Hollinger
To like people for who they are. To respect people. Love also means to take care of them.
Gabriel Palomino, 7
Hollinger
You care about someone.
Adrian Perez, 7
Hollinger
You care about someone and when you help and respect people.
Hairo Elezalde Porras, 7
Hollinger
Your family looks after you and you watch after them.
Annabelle Sanchez, 8
Hollinger
That I care about people and that they care about me. You could help people when they're sick. You could respect people by helping them pick up their stuff. You could protect people.
Kimberly Teran, 7
Hollinger
You help people, respect people, care about people who are sick, and when you are kind to your family. You could help at your school. You could listen to your teacher.
Daniel Vega, 8
Hollinger
Love is helping one another. If a friend is hurt, you help them.
Alejandra Acosta, 7
Hollinger
To help people. It means when someone gets hurt, I will help them.
Georgina Bickerton, 7
Hollinger
When you feel good. If a girl that you care about crosses the street and a car is coming, you will want to save her. Love makes your heart beat fast.
Julian Fimbres, 8
Hollinger
You care for your family.
Victor Garcia, 8
Hollinger
Not making fun of people and not making fun of people's names, their hand writing or the state that they live in.
Alexis Marin, 8
Hollinger
Caring and helping people. Love means respecting other people and protecting them.
Moises Garcia Duarte, 7
Hollinger
When you help people like your mom and dad. When you love someone, your heart feels respectful and full of love.
Carlos Camarena, 8
Hollinger
Love means that I care about my family and help them. People who are in love like each other. When people marry, it is love.
Janel Encinas, 7
Hollinger
When we protect other people if they are going to get hurt.
Joseph McGuire, 8
Hollinger
Love is like a cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer's day. Love is wonderful!
Sophia Atchison, 9
Holladay Magnet
When you care about someone, you will feel very sad when he or she passes away. When you love someone, you will take care of them.
Ben Bolke, 8
Holladay Magnet
Love is sympathy, caring, and being able to feel both despair and happiness for someone.
Sarah Tucker, 8
Holladay Magnet
Caring about someone.
Jared McCabe, 8
Holladay Magnet
Caring for a person you have been with for a long time. Love isn't just having someone love you, but it's loving them back.
Brandon Swartz, 9
Manzanita
A warm hug from my parents. It means people taking care of you.
Josh Fielding-Singn, 11
Manzanita
It is friendship. Everyone gets along. Everyone loves each other in their heart.
Faith Mendoza, 6
Esperanza
Love is my mom and dad and even my sister. Everybody in my family loves me and I love them back, always a lot.
Hunter Gresham, 6
Esperanza
People bumping into each other, and then they get married.
Sandra Avila, 6
Esperanza
That my family loves me, and it means that they were glad that you were born.
Yvonne Acedo, 7
Esperanza
Someone is special to you. That you care about them.
Diego Galindo, 7
Esperanza
Love solves mean and mad. I like love because it takes away mean.
Noah Durazo, 6
Esperanza
To love your friends and family. It also means love everybody in the world. Say nice words.
Alejandra Leon, 7
Esperanza
A person that you always want to be around.
Shad Newland, 9
Wheeler
To not hate each other but to like each other.
Katelin Burgess, 8
Wheeler
Somebody that you care for a lot.
Casey Jurna, 8
Wheeler
Taking care of your dad when he is sick.
Alliyah Stewart, 9
Wheeler
When my dad asked my mom to get married on Christmas Eve.
Tim Grant, 9
Wheeler
When my grandma tells me she loves me.
Kayla Bayne, 9
Wheeler
You respect that person like my mom and dad.
Sarah Adams Schlee, 8
Wheeler
My mom because she cooks me chicken and rice.
Andres Gauna-Orantes, 8
Wheeler
My cats because they make me feel happy in my heart.
Joseph Merritt, 9
Wheeler
That you show respect for others, you care for others, and you set a good example for others.
Meagan Getz, 9
Wheeler
A really good relationship with somebody. I have a good relationship with my best friend Elia, even though she is in the fifth grade.
Valeria Rocha, 8
Wheeler
When somebody loves me, it means that I have been good to them. You can love somebody as a friend.
Lee Hoene, 8
Wheeler
People, family or your pets. I love my family because they go to work for me and they make sure I have important things. They help me with my homework.
Kyle Cook, 9
Wheeler
When you are nice to someone, and they are nice to you.
Janet Squire, 8
Wheeler
Somebody cares about me.
Sabrina Studley, 9
Wheeler
When my mom gave me a bike that I had been asking for, it made me feel really special and loved.
Brittany Adkins, 8
Wheeler
You are more than best friends and you have known each other for a long time. I have had my tortoise for a long time, and he will eat out of my hand.
Austin Anderson, 9
Wheeler
Going to see my cousin is love. I have not seen him in a long time, but every time I see him we do fun things together.
Bradly Rudder, 9
Wheeler
Love is a kind of affection. It just doesn't happen quickly, it takes time. If you love someone, you will be there for them all the time that you can.
Lee Garcia, 8
Wheeler
If you love someone, you care about them and want to be with them. I love my mom and dad because they give me food and don't let me starve.
Justine Valles, 8
Wheeler
You forgive someone even though they may do bad things to you. Like when my brother and sister call me names, I still love them.
Makenzie Koontz, 9
Wheeler
You care about other people's feelings.
Hannah Christensen, 8
Wheeler
You are excited to see a person you really like. When my dad comes home from a business trip my sister and I go to the airport to see him. We run to him and he picks us up and twirls us around.
Celina Olmos, 8
Wheeler
My dogs are always happy to see me, and that is how I know they love me.
Trevor Garcia, 9
Wheeler
Something that makes me feel funny inside. It makes me feel that way when someone says something really nice to me or hugs me.
Kaleb Conrad, 9
Wheeler
Being nice to your family and everyone else. It also means not being mad at the people you love and to forgive them when they get mad at you.
Ariana Ruiz, 5
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Unconditional acceptance, affection for, strong devotion to, and willingness to put another's needs foremost such as those of family (including pets) and friends.
Tricia Marrapodi, 38, teacher
Utterback Middle School
Someone cares about you. They give you gifts and talk to you about happy things.
Louie Lucero, 9
Casas Christian School
Caring about my step- and real family.
Michael Devor, 8
Casas Christian
Showing people that you care about them. You help them, be a true friend to them and put them first.
Lake Mehalic, 8
Casas Christian
Being a good friend.
Sabrina Schneider, 8
Casas Christian
What my grandparents and Mom do when they take care of me.
Soren Tucker, 9
Casas Christian
Caring for others.
Noah Hensley, 8
Casas Christian
Caring about others, worshiping God, showing others how to love God and to be a real friend.
Keely Cutler, 9
Casas Christian
When a person spends time with me, when they take care of me and not give up on me. You also need to love other people, and don't give up on them.
Lea Tonery, 9
Casas Christian
Being a true and honest friend. It also means helping and giving money to the poor.
Jamey Kogan, 9
Casas Christian
Caring about others, your family, your mom and dad, and your grandma and grandpa.
Dillin Blank, 9
Casas Christian
Someone cares about you. It also means when people take time out of their day to take care of you when you hurt.
Nathan Hart, 9
Casas Christian
To be a true and honest friend. It also means to take care of people who are needy.
Cayley Hensley, 8
Casas Christian
Love helps people's feelings to get better. Love is helping people that can love others.
Jared Jee, 8
Casas Christian
To care about people and trust them.
Daisy Hoffman, 8
Casas Christian
You should care about others and care about animals. You should always love your parents because they do the most work.
Ricquel Burnham, 9
Casas Christian
To trust people to take care of you, like your mom and dad. It's because they love you.
Kayla Robbins, 9
Casas Christian
You are kind, nice and caring to someone. Love also means to share with someone.
Laykn Kearns, 8
Casas Christian
You care for someone very, very much . . . so much, you would give them your life.
Rachel Romero, 8
Casas Christian
To care for someone and if they need help you would help them.
Marissa Flores, 10
Lulu Walker
Being benevolent. Benevolent means being nice and always helping people who need help.
David Lucero, 11
Desert Shadows
When you touch someone's heart. You feel comfortable with them. You smell their perfume. You see the love you have for them. Finally, you hear how they talk with their beautiful voice.
Raul Ruiz, 12
Desert Shadows
Feeling a soft hand on those summer days. Baking sweet, sweet cookies with your family; feeling a soft rose petal on your lips; watching the stars above by a full moon; it is something wonderful to cherish on breathtaking days.
Victoria Tanori, 12
Desert Shadows
You like someone so much that you want to be with them always. Its like a piece of chocolate. It is sweet, and it will end when you eat it all.
Brenda Silva, 11
Desert Shadows
A lot of roses. Buying nice things for your parents and the whole family. Talking to them about what happened at school.
Juan Daniel Barnett, 11
Desert Shadows
Something you'll do anything for and that is what has kept you running for so long.
Daniel Verdugo, 11
Desert Shadows
It means you're not alone and you get a happy, warm, hypnotizing feeling.
Samantha Rodriguez, 12
Desert Shadows
When you take care of your family when something is wrong. When you're in love, you can be with the person you want to be with. One great thing about love is you will be happy.
Ruben Hernandez, 11
Desert Shadows
Love is caring; love is generosity. It is one of the most important parts of life. Show it by being yourself. You can't hear, taste, touch or smell love, but best of all you can feel it in your heart.
Ivannie Ceballos, 12
Desert Shadows
There is always a hand reaching for you when you're down. It means someone will be by your side, day and night, just for you.
Monica Haro, 11
Desert Shadows
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