Oops, I didn’t meant to click on the publish button just yet.  I just wanted to say a few more words about what type of love I see in “LW.”  Meg definitely wants a companion.  She wants to be a “little woman” and play house, so she settles for the first guy that comes along.  As you can see, the romance is already fading with the birth of the twins.  Jo ostensibly marries for “love” and looks like she be with Bhaer forever.  However, I can’t help but think she won’t look around at Meg and Amy and say, “Maybe I should have married a younger, cuter guy.”  I’m not sure that Amy even knew what she was doing when she married Laurie.  This totally goes against the girl code of not getting involved with a guy that belonged to another girl (could be a friend, but especially not a sister).  Jo totally pimped him out.  Laurie should feel like a commodity.  In any event, the love I see as being real (and I use the term loosely) is Meg’s relationship with John.  I only say this because she had relationship that would have been expected of her at the time.