![]() We explained our relationships with our mothers. We exchanged stories about the last time we each cried, and confessed the one thing we’d like to ask a fortuneteller. I grinned and gulped my beer as he listed two more commonalities I then promptly forgot. They began innocuously: “Would you like to be famous? In what way?” And “When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?” ![]() We spent the next two hours passing my iPhone across the table, alternately posing each question. Not only that, but I see now that one neither suggests nor agrees to try an experiment designed to create romantic love if one isn’t open to this happening. Let me acknowledge the ways our experiment already fails to line up with the study. They invited the entire lab to the ceremony. The most tantalizing detail: Six months later, two participants were married. Then they stare silently into each other’s eyes for four minutes. ![]() They sit face to face and answer a series of increasingly personal questions. A heterosexual man and woman enter the lab through separate doors. I explained the study to my university acquaintance. So, like a good academic, I turned to science, hoping there was a way to love smarter. Each time I thought of leaving, my heart overruled my brain. I first read about the study when I was in the midst of a breakup.
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