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devices, their inflamed devotion would have amounted to no more than a flicker of
puppy love?
Because the story is a work of fiction, such questions are, of course, hypothet-
ical and any answer to them speculative. However, it is possible to ask and answer
with more certainty similar questions about modern-day Romeos and Juliets. Do
couples suffering parental interference react by committing themselves more
firmly to the partnership and falling more deeply in love? According to a study
done with 140 Colorado teenage couples, that is exactly what they do. The re-
searchers in this study found that although parental interference was linked to
some problems in the relationship-the partners viewed one another more criti-
cally and reported a greater number of negative behaviors in the other-that in-
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