Arthur Japin knows what love is, but it didn’t come naturally. In his youth he was all too often told that he was worth nothing. “When you grow up in that, you can’t believe that someone can love you. Yet I met someone, Lex, with whom I am still happy after 42 years. He saw that. He saw more.” Then accepting and believing that is a long process. “But if someone persists and can convince you, then he or she sees more in you than you knew there was to see and that’s when you can start to love yourself,” says Japin.
What love means to Arthur Japin, the writer of the most beautiful love phrase in the Netherlands
