Hugh Hefner Dies: 'Playboy' Founder Was 91 : NPR: "Sex was handed to us by the powers that be, but romance is something that we invented, that is unique to humankind. And what's interesting about the Western romantic tradition, of course, is that some of the classics are, you know, Romeo and Juliet, where everybody dies. ... In the fairy tales it's pursuit, and then 'they lived happily ever after.' But we never really deal with "they lived happily ever after."
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