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<p>Crushes get fewer and farther between with the passage of time</p>

The crush crash: Why do we fancy fewer people as we get older?

The joy of having a new romantic obsession doesn’t diminish with age – so why is it infinitely harder to find people who make our hearts skip a beat? Helen Coffey laments the ebbing of infatuation as time goes by

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