You should have, for every year of your existence, one love in life. 1. Exotica music. 2. First sip of properly brewed coffee. 3. Sunny warm days. 4. Hits to my dead pools. 5. Pen pal letters. 6. Fountain pens. 7. Chrome railcar-style diners. 8. Peanuts comic strips, especially the ones prior to Woodstock. 9. Scent of lavender. 10. The feel of my ears when they've been properly cleaned out. 11. A full night's sleep after a lung-expanding strenuous hike. 12. Charles Spencer Chaplin. 13. LeRoy Shield and Marvin Hatley music compositions for Hal Roach Film Studios. 14. Action Girl comics from the early-mid 1990s 15. "The Shadow" pulp novels 16. The squeaky clean feel of my hair after adding baking soda to my shampoo. 17. Pavlovas and other meringue desserts. 18. James Beard mid-20th century recipes. A tiny bit of fuss, a huge surge in taste. 19. Geocaches. 20. The feel of my skin after exfoliation: tender and fresh. 21. Proper Japanese ramen, wih the egg and pork broth and full of vegetables and noodles. 22. Free museums. 23. The beach! Even the rocky or pebbly ones, in places too cold for surfing or extended tanning. 24. Solving geocache puzzles. 25. Learning new ideas, words, concepts, trivia from conversation. 26. Walker's Shortbread. 27. 1890s-1930s style typefaces. 28. Penguin paperback editions of classic English novels. 29. Vienna-style coffeehouses. 30. 1980s-1990s 'The Comic Strip" specials (e.g. "The Famous Five on Mescaline", "Jealousy"). 31. A fresh, clean rain. 32. Little Free Libraries. 33. Limeades, ginger drinks. 34. Codes and ciphers. 35. Encrypted messages in my inbox. 36. Railways. 37. To-read Lists. 38. The colour red. 39. Bubble baths. 40. Small towns that are stops along a roadtrip. 41. Marv Newland/International Rocketship Productions cartoons, and those cartoons where characters have the Pac-Man eyes, and Fleischer B&W cartoons. 42. Japanese incense. 43. Independent radio stations, especially the community-supported ones that stream on the internet. 44. Adult-level and YA novels with puzzles for the bright and eager to solve. 45. Winning money. 46. Strawberry sundaes. 47. Dr. Bronner's liquid castile soaps. 48. Swear words in foreign languages. 49. Large used bookstores, with books stacked everywhere and dust illuminated from large sunny windows. 50. Simple comfort food recipes. 51. French perfume bombshells from yesteryear wore. 52 Kit-Kat clocks with swinging tails.