IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO

Posted by Pamela on January 11, 2007

In Reply to: IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO posted by Belinda on January 11, 2007

: question: what is the correct saying IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO, IF THEY RETURN...

Apparently, Richard Bach (US writer) was the source of this: "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." A friend of my sister's had a t-shirt with this printed on it (or should I say ironed on to it) way back in the '70s - I thought it was the most profound thing I had ever read. The t-shirt version was: "If you love her, let her go. If she comes back - shes yours. If she doesnt - never was." It had no apostrophes and a picture of a white bird just opening its wings to take off. Would the dove come back? That was the mystery. Pamela

• IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO Carolyn 11/February/07