Indeed, the story that he fell in love with someone he never met, even in this world of pixelated love objects, appears to be preposterous even to those of us digitalsexuals who are into virtual relationships.

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They would travel together in the next world as they had in this world, their love and understanding of one another free from families and other earthly burdens.

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That focus on how many people in this world can love one specific person is very nerdy, DeGruy said.

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Gotta love this wonderful world we now live in.

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"I worked as an English teacher in a town in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco for two years, and quickly grew to love this part of the world, " he said.

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The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, a centenarian, reaches to the world beyond for this story of mad love and self-consuming art, set in the rustic realms of the Douro wine country.

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Back in 2008 he turned down months of interview requests before agreeing to sit down with Forbes for this story ("The Crossing") on his oil and gas business, and this one ("A Wildcatter in Love With Warbirds") on his passion for collecting vintage World War II fighter planes.

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"I am in love with the intense beauty of southernmost New Zealand and am excited to be setting a story in this end of the world paradise, " said Campion, who will co-direct the series with Australian Garth Davis.

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What I love about this aspiration is the ambition, the goal of wanting to change the world, and make a dent in the universe.

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