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In our previous instalment we spoke about how our ideas of love and what we experienced to be loved is shaped by one of, if not two, different forces. We're going to move from the descriptive of what it is to the ought, what love could or should be But before we do that, we just want to give Carrie Jenkins' ultimate view in what love is Which is a bridging of these two views, the biological and the social And she says, love is ancient biological machinery embodying a modern social role Could we say what does that mean exactly? Yeah, so she proposes how love's dual nature fits together with the analogy of an actor playing a role.

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