Freud has it that we become ill if we do not love, and songs tell us we must succumb to a love that - bonding us - will devastate us too.

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As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

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We can sit and try to make sense of why one kind of match would work or not work for a global girl, but we must concede that love is messy and unpredictable.

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And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children.

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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

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" We must do better if we want to live up to the promise of this country we love so much, " he said.

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We know, as he knew, that love must be a living and breathing thing.

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"You must be so lucky, " they said, "we'd love to just talk for a living!"

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He insisted, like an American teenager who's signed the "True Love Waits" vow of celibacy until their wedding day, that we must be patient, stop fumbling and hold on for the manifesto, while fluttering his eyelids so that we all know that he's been round the back of the bike shed with the Guardian, and it's all true.

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