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Commentary: A Valentine's Song of Ambiguous Love

Music critic Michelle Mercer has a hard time with most of the love songs that flood the airwaves around Valentine's Day. She says they don't express the ambiguousness and ambivalence of real love -- so she set out to find a song that does just that.

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