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Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?

  • Written by James Kuzner, Associate Professor of English, Brown University
Jules Salles-Wagner's 1898 painting 'Romeo and Juliet.'Wikimedia Commons

For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight.

To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat...

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