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" Most of us have seen\u00A0Love Actually\u00A0about 49684 times, right? We know it inside out. It&amp;#039;s a Christmas classic; a tale of love\u00A0which also serves up quite well as a rainy Sunday/sick day movie any time of the year. It&amp;#039;s bloody brilliant. But it turns out\u00A0we can&amp;#039;t know it that well, because\u00A0there was an entire set of characters that were cut from the film, and we&amp;#039;re almost a bit glad they never made the final edit.\u00A0 Because if these scenes had been left in, we&amp;#039;d have been in floods for most of the duration of the film, and not just at the end where you well up at the airport scene and remember how\u00A0lucky we are\u00A0to live and to love. The storyline that was cut contained a same-sex couple; the headmistress from Karen&amp;#039;s (Emma Thompson) school, and her terminally-ill partner. In a YouTube video, the film&amp;#039;s screenwriter/producer/director, Richard Curtis, explained that it had to be removed due to a prior scene relating to Karen&amp;#039;s son having been cut, because the conversation\u00A0wouldn&amp;#039;t have made sense without it.        It&amp;#039;s interesting that one of the main criticisms of\u00A0Love Actually\u00A0was the lack of a same-sex couple, despite there being so many other various functional and dysfunctional relationships included in the plot.\u00A0 But it&amp;#039;s good to know the\u00A0thought was there, anyway. And on the plus side, we were saved from a\u00A0bucket-load\u00A0of tears while watching. So that&amp;#039;s\u00A0something. Follow Cat on Twitter.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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