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| date      = October 19, 2005
 
| date      = October 19, 2005
 
| title    = Love
 
| title    = Love
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A07%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-(2%20Comments Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing'''</big></big>
 
 
| image    = love.jpg
 
| image    = love.jpg
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| imagesize =
 
| titletext = This one makes me wince every time I think about it
 
| titletext = This one makes me wince every time I think about it
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
This was the twenty-first comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[21: Kepler]], and the next one was [[40: Light]].
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Couples sometimes expresses their love similarly to this comic, continuing to escalate the claims of how much they love each other, satisfied that they love each other a lot.
  
This comic expresses the view of a love that is unbalanced and unequal. And how one form of love can be painful when closely examined. It is customary for people in a romantic relationship, when one makes a declaration of love or affection, for the other to make a matching declaration. However, instead of continuing [[Cueball]]'s escalation by saying the expected response "I love you ''more''!", [[Megan]] stops and agrees with him: he does in fact love her more than she loves him. This leads to an uncomfortable dynamic in the relationship, and the final frame shows the couple awkwardly standing in silence.
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But what if the woman agrees that, yeah, he does love her more? The awkwardness of such an admission is further punctuated by the title text.  
  
In the title text, [[Randall]] expresses how this comic is shockingly stark in its portrayal of love.
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==Trivia==
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* This is the twenty-first comic originally posted to livejournal.  The previous was [[21: Kepler]].  The next was [[40: Light]].
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
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:[A man and a woman stand facing one another]
:Cueball: I love you!
 
:Megan: I love you!
 
  
:[Same scene as before.]
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:Man: I love you!
:Cueball: I love you more!
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:Woman: I love you!
:Megan: Yeah.
 
  
:[Beat panel.]
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:Man: I love you more!
  
==Trivia==
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:Woman: Yeah.
This used to be one of the [[Footer comics|footer comics]] featured in the bottom segment of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
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:[A man and a woman stand facing one another - saying nothing.]
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
  
[[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 21]]
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal]]
[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
 
[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
[[Category:Footer comics]] <!-- in initial footer -->
 
[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 

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