Falling in Love
Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose
Chapter One
PROXIMITY,
THE HIDDEN MATCHMAKER
When I'm not near the one I love,
I love the one I'm near.
—E.Y. Harburg, Finian's Rainbow
Advice for good love: Don't love
those from far away. Take yourself one
from nearby.
The way a sensible house will take
local stones for its building,
stones which have suffered in the same cold
and were scorched by the same sun."
—Yehuda Amichai,
"Advice for Good Love," Love Poems
"We were friends as soon as we met at school. I was actually going out
with his roommate so I spent a lot of time in their house and we became
really close friends. And then we started falli ... read full excerpt from Falling in Love ebook
