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Not really tbh. I don’t consider it to be about me. Just about anything can serve as a social object for people to connect over. It’s no more significant than happening to own a souvenir store next to a popular tourist attraction.
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Hm. Perhaps. Although if you imagine a date being successful or two friends making up over a shared liking (or disliking) of something you wrote -- the surprise realisations of something *significant* being shared -- there is something special about that.
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I’m clearly not as much of a romantic as you. I imagine most people who end up together don’t think of the restaurant of first date as particularly intrinsically significant. It’s just significant via projection of mutual meaning in their story. The catalyst is not the reaction.
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