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Hey, it's Marielle.
I saw this video the other day of a little bird that's sitting on somebody's kitchen counter.
It must be a pet.
And the bird, it sees a potential mate on the floor.
So it jumps down and sidles up to the other bird, nuzzles it, tries to mount it.
Yes, that's the yin-yang twins playing in the background.
The iconic seduction song, Wait, the Whisper Song, came out in 2005. Anyway,
then you realize the other bird is not actually a bird.
It is a bird wind-up toy.
I feel like I've done this before in dating.
Set my sights on somebody juicy, slid into their view, did my little mating dance,
and then realized they were not a suitable companion.
And yet I couldn't stop thinking about them, even after I knew they were a wind-up toy.
I would say limerence is an altered mental state, fundamentally.
So it's a state that many of us go into in the early stages of love.
And it's kind of a profound romantic infatuation with another person.