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Is There Only One Love of Your Life? A Film and a Book Disagree

Oct 14, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

What does it mean to call someone the love of your life, when the phrase mostly gets said in the past tense?

Recommended read: Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

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The critical word in every account is resisted.Recommended read: Hatchet Man by Elie HonigBeyond the Hospital Headline: What Christina Applegate Already Told Us About Living with MSBeyond the Hospital Headline: What Christina Applegate Already Told Us About Living with MSLegacy, Performance, and the Second ActApr 17, 2026, 11:14 PM UTCWhat happens when the person behind a headline has already written the version of events she wants you to know?Recommended read: You With the Sad Eyes by Christina ApplegateThe Trader Joe's Settlement Makes More Sense After You Read the Founder's MemoirThe Trader Joe's Settlement Makes More Sense After You Read the Founder's MemoirCourts, Power, and Institutional MemoryApr 17, 2026, 4:17 PM UTCTrader Joe's $7.4 million FACTA settlement, now sending roughly $102 checks to customers who swiped cards at its stores between March and July 2019, looks like a routine compliance stumble.Recommended read: Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe, Patty CivalleriBefore the Call of Duty Movie, Read the Battle It Can't Afford to SimplifyBefore the Call of Duty Movie, Read the Battle It Can't Afford to SimplifyCollapse, Control, and RebuildingApr 17, 2026, 10:14 AM UTCSomewhere in a Paramount boardroom, executives are figuring out how to compress modern warfare into a two-hour summer blockbuster.Recommended read: Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenAndre Agassi Says He Loves Pickleball. 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