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Falling in Love

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The splendour of 'falling in love' far exceeds the splendour of 'being in love'. Falling in love is the short-lived heavenly phase that precedes either love or heart-break. Being in love is about warmth, goodness, trust and support. Falling in love is about frequent rushes of sweet chemicals in your heart and mind. Making you feel dizzy with joy. Its when you feel you could die of anticipation. Its when at night, sweet fantasies help you drift to intoxicated sleep. It's when you could stay up all night and still not feel sleepy through the day. This February I felt that beautiful feeling of falling in love again. Well almost. This time i felt it for a city. While enjoying breakfast at Flurys, gazing at the magnificent fins in their aquarium and listening to the soft trickle of Bengali all around me, I knew that I was falling in love. While looking forward to a cabaret at Trincas but settling for a pretty, well endowed woman, in a shimmering golden short dress singin