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The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Humans
Essential
Heart
Relationships
Essentials
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Women
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Contradiction

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