Will we know our loved ones in heaven?

Philosopher Peter Kreeft:

"Of course we will know our loved ones. This is a divinely designed, essential part of our joy. We are not designed to be solitary mystics, lovers of God alone, but to be, like God himself, lovers of men and women as well. Just as Jesus on Earth loved each person differently and specially -- He did not love John as he loved Peter, because John was not Peter -- so we are designed to love people specially. There is no reason why this specialness should be removed, rather than added to, in eternity ...

"Our family and special friends will always be our family and special friends. In this life a child begins to learn to love by loving mother, then father, then siblings ... The concentric circles of love are then gradually expanded, but the beginning lessons are never abandoned. There is no reason to think God rips up this plan after death."