Their separation inspired "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " a towering ballad about a doomed love.

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Super Sad True Love Story portrays a predictably doomed love affair between a 38-year-old, death-obsessed, Russian-American Jew named Lenny Abramov and his much, much younger Korean-American girlfriend Eunice Park.

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Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.

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But as it turns out, such frailty is well suited for bittersweet love songs about missed connections and doomed romances.

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