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  • The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

    "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.