Love Diary #88

A sweeping close-up of a young blonde woman lost in a passionate embrace dominates this June 1974 Charlton romance cover, with a inset snapshot of the same couple standing together hinting at a story full of emotional highs and lows. The dreamy floral background and the woman's whispered thought — "Oh, Don, won't you understand that I can't love just one patient! I have to… love them all" — set up a deliciously complicated romantic dilemma. Cover art by Rubén Sosa gives the whole thing a warmly expressive quality that made Charlton's romance line such an appealing read in 1974, and a find-a-word puzzle page inside sweetens the deal.