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Dopamine brings people together and oxytocin keeps them attached,
studies show. Is love just chemistry? For centuries, love has been
probed -- and of course celebrated -- mostly by poets, artists and
balladeers. But now its mysteries are yielding to the tools of
science, including modern brain-scanning machines.
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