As I watched the Vanishing Family Trick unfold, and played my own part in it, I sometimes felt as if love itself, or the acts of heart and mind that constitute love, were being leached out of the house by our screens.

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Its owner Michael Lee bought the house from the estate of late comedian Buddy Hackett, who informally renamed it the Love Shack for all the Rat Pack-filled parties he held.

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"It was a bipartisan love fest on the floor of the House during the vote, " says Darryl Hatheway, board member of Surfrider and chairman of the Washington, D.

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So Congressman James Wright, then the number two Democrat in the House of Representatives, forced through an amendment that limited interstate air service from Love Field to just four neighboring states.

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Immediately upon finishing Great House, I felt I had to read History of Love and counted the days until my vacation, when I would finally have a few blissful evenings of reading for pleasure.

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And it got no love from either the White House or Capitol Hill until after it died from lack of interest.

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Laurie Puhn, a couples mediator and author of "Fight Less, Love More, " likens Friday's meeting at the White House to a couple's mediation session where both spouses come into the room but refuse to speak.

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The Vice President will be joined by Attorney General Eric Holder, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Lynn Rosenthal and Sharon Love, mother of Yeardley Love and founder of the One Love Foundation.

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