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The changing road to romance.

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From: Lima News (Lima, OH)
Date: 20060212
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Byline: Bart Mills

Feb. 12--LIMA --It was 1835, when the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her husband: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." What followed was one of love's great laundry lists, a treatise on passion that continues to inspire romantics more than 170 years later.

Last month, Wendy Hutchins, of Lima, received her own love tome. It read: "Wht R U doing latr? Wanto hit it :)" True love may be eternal, but that doesn't mean it hasn't changed. Love and the way we express it has evolved or, some would say, devolved over the years. And in ...

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