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March 10, 2006

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Are you in love right now? Fair question, but don't you need to know exactly what love is first?

    A. Good luck, because dozens of love definitions have been bandied over the years, says University of California-Santa Barbara sociologist Thomas J. Scheff. Checking an unabridged dictionary, you can find some two dozen meanings, beginning with: 1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude. 2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction ... the emotion of sex and romance.


     
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