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Let's Make a Match
by Lisa Kogan

I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress and elevates empathy. I believe in love (or something damn near like it) at first sight, I believe it's perfectly okay to love the one you're with, provided the one you're with either happens to have excellent news from an extremely up-to-date HIV test or answers to the name of Hugh Laurie, and I firmly believe that marriage ceremonies would go much faster if Kahlil Gibran hadn't written that big love passage into The Prophet.

But more than anything else, I believe in love because when you don't have it, you tend to spend your every waking moment chasing after it…at least I always did.

Bruce Springsteen was right—everybody has a hungry heart.

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