1Upon posting a blog about this aphorism, I learned from my friend Arturo Vergara that, despite how I thought of this aphorism on my own, it is also, word-for-word (aside from being in Spanish?), a Mexican folk saying.↩

2Regarding dating someone with redflags that you can’t or shouldn’t overlook.↩

3You should not love someone and expect that because you love them, they will eventually love you. Unrequited love is a very real thing.↩