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"  Journalist John Bowe and his coeditors jack us with uncanny directness into the Great American Eros\u2014and in some cases the Id\u2014in Us: Americans Talk About Love (Faber &amp;amp;amp; Faber). This gaggle of voices from all walks of life will have you giggling, crying, and muttering to yourself in alarmingly rapid succession. For what could be more central to the human condition than the beckonings\u2014and consequences\u2014of Cupid? What could be more compelling than a New York City waitress&amp;#039;s tale of why she dumped an Italian count with a huge inheritance for a Brazilian busboy who was an illegal alien? Or the liberal Minnesota mom who married into a &amp;quot;culty&amp;quot; right-wing clan and, after three kids and several decades, met the love of her life\u2014another woman? Or the L.A. Latino who discovered he was bisexual when he met Miguel: &amp;quot;Technically, I had physically, mechanically better sex with my girlfriend. She actually had a great body. But you know, he was the object of my affection....That was love.&amp;quot; A central truth soon emerges from this tapestry of human desire: Like the eternal city of Rome, the ruins of ancient, formative love often stand in plain sight alongside the most recent annexes of our emotional landscape. One lost soul enthuses at length about the love of his life, Chyna, with whom he shared &amp;quot;this instant physical intensity&amp;quot;\u2014how they would do meth and listen to bands like Korn and Tool until they experienced mutual hallucinations. &amp;quot;But my body knows that it will always care for her and get a little bit excited when I see her on Facebook,&amp;quot; he concludes, before noting that they broke up seven years ago, since which time he&amp;#039;s been living with his parents on disability &amp;quot;because of too much trauma and who the hell knows what else.&amp;quot; It doesn&amp;#039;t have to be like that; as one Kansas City autoworker who&amp;#039;s been married to his junior-high-school sweetheart for 65 years puts it, &amp;quot;True love exists. If you make it. It&amp;#039;s a true thing if you make it true.&amp;quot; Amen. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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