Two people meet. They are attracted. They begin to see each other frequently. They talk a great deal, sharing reams of personal history. Their attraction grows into intensely positive feelings generated whenever they are together. After a while, the feelings are aroused just by the thought of each other. They fuse, emotionally, two selves into one. A symptom of that fusion is the ability of one person to stimulate, or trigger, the other emotionally. If one is happy, the other is happy. If one is sad, the other is sad. More specifically, if one is intense emotionally, the other becomes intense.
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