Or, put another way, is it possible to love someone without yet knowing them?

Animal lovers certainly don’t have trouble loving any and every cat, dog, or other furry creature they meet, but love love is more complicated — or is it? Countless hopeless romantics claim to have loved their eventual husband or wife at first sight, and who are we to say they didn’t? Perhaps this one is hard to believe in until it happens to you; we should all be so lucky.