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Passionate love is characterized by intense emotions, sexual attraction, anxiety, and affection. Based around the famous turing test, a working theory of love explores human consciousness and asks what makes a human truly human. A headcase by lidia yuknavitch and a working theory of love by scott hutchins. All this learningthis education in loveis important. First you read an emotional thriller and then it lingers on, making you value your own mortality. About the author scott hutchins, a truman capote fellow in the wallace stegner program at stanford university, is the author of a working theory of love.
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