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Don’t you just love Love? As a concept it is unbeatable; it’s up there with language, the wheel and the flush toilet as humanity’s greatest invention. “I love you” sounds more poetic than “I biological imperative you”; less selfish than “My genes regard you as the finest available vehicle for their propagation and survival”; so much more flattering than “I am tired of being alone so I have decided to settle for whoever I happen to be with at this moment and that’s you”; less materialistic than “Let’s merge our assets and spawn heirs to inherit the works”; and more charming than “We must act now to head off any speculation about our respective sexual orientations; my mother is particularly nosy”.

Coming soon in the Philippine Star.

Meanwhile, Anatomy of a Tearjerker: Why does Adele’s Someone Like You make everyone cry? Science has found the formula.

Since not all of us are gay men recalling the guy who ditched us for a woman…

The Wall Street Journal (illustration) Associated Press (photo); Universal Music Publishing (score)