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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Attraction

Koi No Yokan

koy no yo-KAHN

n.The sense on first meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable.

JapaneseCultural concept

The Premonition

They put him next to her at a wedding, which is how these things are still arranged despite everything.

"Rohan," he said. "Groom's side. Badly."

"Badly?"

"We shared a house in second year. He once ate a birthday cake I had bought for someone else and denied it while there was icing on his face."

"So you're here out of spite."

"I'm here out of a long and complicated love that expresses itself as spite. Aisha," she said, reading his glance at her place card. "Bride's side. I taught her Portuguese for two years and she can now order a beer and insult a referee."

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