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'Crazy Love': That About Sums It Up; Some Relationships Defy the Odds, and Common Sense. Here's Proof.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070608
Author:Stephen Hunter - Washington Post Staff Writer

When Elizabeth Barrett Browning said she'd count the ways she could love someone, she never quite made it to No.11: "I shall love thee so entirely that if thou leavest me, I shall throw acid in thy face."

But that's the story of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss of the Bronx, N.Y., as told in Dan Klores's documentary "Crazy Love," and here's the nut-root part: Sixteen years after the fiery liquid ate away her eyes and hair, Linda married Burt. As they say, the path of true love seldom runs -- oh, nevermind.

Some, of course, would argue that to call what Burt felt for Linda and what he did when it ...

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