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FROM FRIENDS to lovers: the same root for two romantically different endings. A change of letters that happens much more often than you think. And that relegates the spectacular love at first sight between strangers to a marginal role. From the famous Harry and Sally of the late Eighties, to Hermione and Ron in the saga of Harry Potter of the first decade of the 2000s, up to Mike and Eleven of Stranger Things in 2019: we have several examples of love stories born as friendships, yet it seems that this possibility is greatly underestimated compared to its true potential, both in narratives and in scientific literature.
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