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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Elizabeth Gilbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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