They are not nostalgic soccer fans who own United for the purpose of their undying love for the game or the club.

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And indeed, in line with this perception, he can be expected to declare his undying love for the Jewish state several times during his speech.

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As president, Bill Clinton was able to simultaneously embrace Yassir Arafat, and take down Netanyahu without anyone ever questioning his undying love for Israel and the Jews.

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In a world before Youtube, when someone wanted to declare their undying love for Pokemon, he had to go shouting in on the streets like a crazy person.

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Others may view Mud as nothing more than a scruffy murderer on the run, but the kids see him, at least for a while, as a romantic renegade living out a violent adventure in the service of undying love.

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The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.

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We get the impression that Joyce has been in love for decades not with a specific man but with herself as the heroine of a grand, undying passion.

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