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What does it mean?
Even simple creatures like oysters can experience romantic disappointment.
In plain terms
Even oysters can face heartbreak.
What can you take from it?
Love affects all living things.

Where it applies

  • talking about love
  • personifying nature
  • light humor

Putting it to work

  • recognize emotion
  • use humor
  • connect with nature

Questions to consider

  • What counts as emotion?
  • How do we relate to nature?

Another view

Oysters lack complex nervous systems to feel love.

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