A Rhetorical Analysis Of Valentine's Day

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The Valentine’s Day ’98 podcast discuses an event that constantly happens in our society, which is the experience of love in people's life. The speaker discusses how love is perceived at first as an intense desire and a powerful obsession of thinking and wondering to be all the time near the other person. However, one of the podcast’s speakers called Ira Glass states that love is an illusion, or a dream where the person idealizes the his or her partner in a way that it looks perfect for the person. As a matter of fact, the other speaker called Richard Klein says that psychologists' studies estimated that real love last only eighteen months.
Moreover, act one narrates a story where the characters have a monotonous love and they are getting tired

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