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We have all been there. You are fifteen minutes into a new streaming series, or thirty pages into a bestselling romance novel. The leads have just met. He is brooding and architecturally handsome, with the emotional intelligence of a wet paper towel. She is "quirky" (read: socially inept in a way that would be diagnosed as a disorder in real life). He says something cruel. She retaliates with a "witty" retort that lands with the grace of a cinder block. The background music swells, a folksy indie strum. The camera lingers on their faces.