Where better, Mr de Botton asks, to feel that pang of desire than spotting a potential love interest across the food hall of a motorway service station - isolated, vulnerable and even unhappy.

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Muna's co-worker, a kid with blue hair and a pierced lip, revels in his outsider posture, and Muna's potential love interest is the Jewish principal of her son's high school but the fine performances here make up for a lot.

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Looking even farther afield, he says the Packers would love to gain exposure to potential European fans by playing one of their games in London, as two NFL teams do every year--although only if it counts as an away game, Murphy hastens to add.

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