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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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