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All love stories are frustration stories_ To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn__ know you had (of one__ formative frustrations, and of one__ attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.
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All love stories are frustration stories_ To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn__ know you had (of one__ formative frustrations, and of one__ attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.

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