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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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Humor was the enemy of desire.

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He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

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And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often, but sometimes happ...more

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It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.