For about three hundred years, we’ve used our Word of the Week, passion, to describe an overpowering feeling, especially when it comes to love, so that everybody knows what you’re talking about if you describe a passionate kiss, and the soap operas were supposed to be tales of passion and intrigue and surprises, so that somebody might say, “I’ll go to t…
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