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Attraction

  • By Peter DuCharme
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Opposites attract. Or is
it birds of a feather flock together? Our brains could be chaotic storms
governed by strange attractors. Or is the chaos ungoverned, and less important
than we think?
When it comes to attraction, nothing is
simple. 

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