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What do we deserve in love? - Sherry Ning

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Materialists (2025): Do we choose or do we settle? Does rationality succumb to fate?

It is June 21, 2025, the first day after the Summer Solstice, the first day of days that are getting shorter and shorter. It is hot. My neck is sticky from the sun. I am madly in love. I am sitting on a picnic blanket on the grass under a maple in a garden nestled behind a tree-covered hill between flowerbeds and a tennis club. My lover and I are sharing plums, figs, tea, and cookies, and we’re birdwatching. I spy with my little eyes… one red cardinal. A bachelor looking for a mate. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…

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