Well, you COULD, Carol, just to be fair about it. You could say things, I dunno, like for example:

"Honey, when you made that ham steak wtih red-eye sauce my affinity for you increased by 37% over a period of 17 seconds, and stayed at no less than 93% of that level for the next 2 hours, fifteen minutes and 21 point 76 seconds!! Now if that ain't love, well, I dunno what is!!!"

or,

"Oh, Brad, when you handled that stranger so manfully, the tensor rigidity in my leg joints seemed to decline suddenly to about 60% of their normal load-bearing capacity!! You are SUCH a man!!"

I dunno though...it might not be the same thing. Teenagers just don't describe their emotions in terms of the inverse square law any more , do they? Or did they ever???

:>)

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