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How to fall in love - by Antonia Bentel - ANTO AESTHETICS

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Notes from a quasi-journalistic, occasionally poignant, deeply subjective investigation into love, jazz, and toast crumbs in the butter

From the estate of Corinne Day and Gimpel Fils. Courtesy of i-D, Vogue, and Somerset House. Let us consider for a moment the mythic twinge of the heart muscle that is accompanied only by one distinct act: falling in love. It starts, perhaps, with a conversation. Not the first conversation, of course—that’s just syntax and sly flirtation, punctuation-as-peacock-feather, proof that you know how to talk to people with whom you want to have sex. Not even the second or third, though those are important in the narrative structure you are both unconsciously building, like two flirtatious…

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