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"    Q: I have been seeing this guy for a month. We were on the phone recently, casually talking, when all of the sudden he says to me, &amp;quot;I gotta go. I love you.&amp;quot; He hung up the phone, and I was in shock. Had he really just said that to me? I asked him later if he meant what he said, and he told me he didn&amp;#039;t recall telling me that. He also said he&amp;#039;d spoken to his mother right before me. Should I believe him? Or is he moving too fast? A: I&amp;#039;ve told customer service reps from Sears that I love them while hanging up the phone... several times. I don&amp;#039;t really love any of the good people at Sears, but, you see, I have a tremendous fear of death and I have few friends.  Just bear with me for a second; I&amp;#039;ll make everything clear and answer your question. I make sure that I tell the people in my life I love them as often as I can, because I never know when that great garbage truck in the sky might make a stop in front of me to haul me off to my final dumping place, and I want the people I care about to know how I feel about them before I&amp;#039;m compacted or recycled. Every time I say goodbye in real life or on the phone with my mom, dad, sister, wife, and kids, I say, &amp;quot;Bye, I love you.&amp;quot; Now, because I&amp;#039;m a crazy old hermit, those family members pretty much cover everyone who I normally talk with on the phone. So you see how it might sort of become a habit to end phone conversations with &amp;quot;I love you.&amp;quot; And you might also understand that on the rare occasions when I do contact other earth humans via telephone (for instance; the fine folks at Sears customer service who were just trying to follow up with me on their washer/dryer installation\u2014very professional, btw) I find myself in awkward situations where I have to explain to a complete strangers (usually in Calcutta) why I&amp;#039;ve professed my love to them. I also call my son by the dog&amp;#039;s name. My point: Mistakes happen in this crazy new age of electronic communication (and in the old age of just regular communication). Cut the guy some slack: Unless he starts &amp;quot;casually&amp;quot; asking you about how you feel about eloping versus a big wedding, it was probably just a slip of the tongue. . "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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