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The Atlantic
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“Falling in love can be exhilarating, but it isn’t the secret to happiness per se." When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship, Arthur Brooks wrote in 2021. theatln.tc/kEpI0gsh 🎨: Jan Buchczik

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Jake M.
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American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox famously wrote in her poem "Upon the Sand": "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand". That was more than 100 years ago. Maybe worth mentioning.