Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.