title: How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
author:  Mandy Len Catron 
description: <b>PRAISE FOR&nbsp;</b><i><b>HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ANYONE</b><BR> &nbsp;</i><BR> &quot;A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir.&quot;<BR> <i><b>&mdash;Los Angeles Review of Books&nbsp;</b></i><BR> <BR> &quot;Personal musings and reminiscences paired with solid research provide an interesting stroll through an abstract topic.&quot;<BR> <i><b>&mdash;Kirkus Reviews</b></i><BR> <BR> &quot;Honest and well-researched, the book will teach readers plenty about love, science, and themselves. Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us.&quot;<BR> <i><b>&mdash;</b></i><b><i>Booklist</i></b><BR> <BR> Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on the most universal topic.<BR> <i><b>&mdash;</b></i><i><b>Bookpage</b></i><BR> <BR> &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to imagine a more timely endeavour. Clear-eyed and full of heart, <i>How to Fall in Love With Anyone</i> is mandatory reading for anyone coping with&mdash;or curious about&mdash;the challenges of contemporary courtship.&rdquo;<BR> <i><b>&mdash;</b></i><i><b>Toronto Star</b></i><BR> <BR> &ldquo;In our age of total romantic confusion, Mandy Len Catron is a voice of good sense, warm humor and consoling wisdom. Through the lens of her own relationships, she teaches us&mdash;with a deft, convincing intelligence&mdash;some of the vital moves in the art of love.&rdquo;<BR> &mdash;<b>Alain de Botton, author of <i>How Proust Can Change Your Life </i>and <i>The Course of Love</i></b>
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  **Against the Wall**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **a Male/Male love story**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Book Seven in the Firsts and Forever Series**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **_Dedicated to the_**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **_Thank you, each of you,_**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Chapter One**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was time to go.
  
  
  
  
  
  It was past time, actually. I knew this. But even as part of my brain was
  chanting _come on, come on, come on_ , another part was thinking _almost
  there, just one more minute, that’s all I need_. The part of my brain that
  promised one more minute was a liar. One minute always turned into two, then
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  I shook the can of pink paint in my