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== Real Life ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826060030/http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1868389,00.html An experiment] in which one group of participants watched a romantic comedy and another group watched a drama found that the group watching a romantic comedy became more idealistic about love and romance.
* Very few [[Romance Novel]] heroines think this way, as it would sort of defeat the [[Darkest Hour|black moment]] of the three-act structure. Their authors, however, are literally paid for this trope. Many, if you sit down and talk to them, are just as cynical about love as most people who ''don't'' read [[Romance Novel|romance novels]]. It's all about selling the fantasy.
* Many have theorized that ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' is causing at least one generation of girls, if not two, to think in purely romance novel terms when it comes to relationships.
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