These articles share few similarities and few differences, however the similarities and differences are quite drastic and deal with the heavier topics at hand. One of the similarities has to do with how humans innately build up walls to keep others from hurting us. Brian Doyle writes, " You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can.." This shows how we purposefully build barriers towards people in order to keep our feeling safe. Mandy Catron also mentions this point when she says, "We all have a narrative of ourselves that we offer up to strangers and acquaintances." this also shows that we don't disclose information that we see as personal. This is one of the only similarities that I found, the differences were a lot easier to see. For example, in Doyle's article he says that no matter how strong those walls are they, "come down in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, etc.." This shows that no matter how hard we try love is natural, it is in all of us. Catron on the other hand says it is something that we choose to be in. Her example is her own relationship, she says, "Love didn’t happen to us. We’re in love because we each made the choice to be." this shows that she has a different view of how love can be perceived.