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Which fictional romantic couple did you get most invested in

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DilysPrice · 16/06/2012 09:28

Reading the "Who was your earliest literary crush?" thread has made me think about the fictional couples I have been most emotionally involved with.

I wouldn't personally touch Peter Wimsey with a bargepole, but I really felt Harriet falling in love with him, and the sudden shock at the picnic where she realises she lusts after him.
Aragorn and Arwen, who we never really see together, are give emotional heft by seeing Eowyn hopelessly in love with him.
And I cry buckets over Genly Ai and Estraven falling in love as they trek across the ice in The Left Hand of Darkness.

Which literary couples made you cheer on a crowded train when they got together, or weep when they didn't?

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/06/2012 10:06

Oh, Laurie and Jo. I am still outraged about him and Amy. Yeah she looked pretty while painting - big deal eh AngryGrin

NoraHelmer · 16/06/2012 09:39

Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth

openerofjars · 16/06/2012 09:32

Oscar and Lucinda. It's not fair. Ditto Antonio and Pelagia in Captain Corelli.

Yyy to Left Hand of Darkness. I haven't read it in ages and now have a reading mission, thanks!

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